APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

GUIDRY

[GIH-dree]

ACADIA

Claude Guédry dit Grivois dit La Verdure, who also spelled his surname Gaidry, came to Port-Royal soon after the first census of 1671 and married an Indian, Kesk8a, in c1680.  She gave him a daughter.  In c1681, he married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Petitpas and widow of Martin Dugas, at Port-Royal.  By 1686, they had moved to Mirliguèche, today's Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, near Cap-Sable, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula.  By 1695, they had returned to Port-Royal.  In 1708, they were back on the Atlantic side of the peninsula, at La Hève.  They had 11 children, including nine sons, four of whom created families of their own.  Their two daughters married into the Doiron and Lejeune families.  Claude's older daughter settled at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, after Acadia fell to the British, and his younger daughter also moved to one of the Maritime islands by 1752.  Claude died after January 1723, when he was recorded as baptizing privately the twins daughters of his son Augustin at Boston.  Can one assume by this that Claude and Augustin engaged in commerce with the British?  

Oldest son Claude, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1682, did not marry.  

Jean-Baptiste, born either at Port-Royal or Mirliguèche in c1684, married Madeleine, daughter of Philippe Mius d'Azy, in the early 1700s.  They settled at La Hève, up the coast from Mirliguèche.  They had four children, including two sons who married into the Lejeune, Moyse, and Benoit families.  Jean-Baptiste's daughter married into the Lejeune family.  Jean-Baptiste ran afoul of British authorities in 1726.  He, along with his eldest son Jean Baptiste, fils and three Mi'kmaq Indians, were accused of piracy "against the person of Samuel Daly, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and his crew."  They were convicted, condemned, and hanged at Boston in November 1726.  Jean-Baptiste, père was 42 at the time of his death.  His son was still in his teens.  Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Claude made it to Louisiana.  

Charles, born probably at Mirliguèche in c1686, did not marry.  He was at Cobeguit in 1703.  

Alexis, born probably at Mirliguèche in c1688, also did not marry.

Augustin, born probably at Mirliguèche in c1690, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Hébert, in c1722.  They lived for a time at Boston, Massachusetts, but settled at Minas and Cobeguit.

A second Claude, fils, born either at Mirliguèche or Port-Royal in c1694, did not marry.  

Joseph, born probably at Port-Royal in c1695, also did not marry.  He was back at Mirliguèche in 1725.  

Pierre dit Grivois, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Brassaud, in c1722 at Port-Royal, where they remained.  Pierre died before 1752.  

Youngest son Paul dit Grivois, born at Port-Royal in January 1701, married Anne-Marie dite Nanette, another daughter of Philippe Mius d'Azy, in c1720.  They settled at Mirliguèche and moved to Baie des Espagnols on Île Royale by 1752, probably to be free of British authority in Nova Scotia.  

In 1755, descendants of Claude Guédry dit Gravois dit La Verdure could be found at Port-Royal, at Minas, including l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at Cobeguit, perhaps still at Mirliguèche, and on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. ...

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

Guédrys were early settlers in Acadia and among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them--two individuals--came with the Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti.  After a brief stay in New Orleans, they followed the Broussards to the Atakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche:

Augustin Guédry and his wife Théotiste Broussard came with no children.  Théotiste perished in the epidemic that struck the Teche Acadians that summer and fall. 

Joseph Guidry of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 33, came alone.  In the spring of 1766, he was counted in the "District of the Point," or Fausse Pointe, with no one else in his household.  He did not remain on the Teche, however.  Later in the decade, he moved to Ascension on the river, where he married and settled.  

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Not until the 1770s and 1780s did Guidrys from the river "return" to the prairies and establish a western branch of the family there.  The first Guidry to return to the prairies, Pierre of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, created what may have been the largest family line anywhere in South Louisiana:

Ursule Guidry, wife of Pierre-Paul, called Paul, Boutin, came with her family from St.-Gabriel on the river in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  They settled in the Opelousas District, where Ursule died in the 1770s, in her early 40s.  

Descendants of Pierre GUIDRY (c1742-1825)

Pierre, son of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, brother of Joseph and Ursule, followed his family into exile in Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite, daughter of perhaps Jean-Baptiste Dupuis, in c1764.  They and their three-year-old daughter Marie came to Louisiana from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in February 1768 with the extended family led by brothers Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit.  Spanish governor Ulloa forced the Breau clan to settle at San Luis de Natchez, far upriver.  Marguerite, and probably Marie also, died at Natchez soon after they got there, and Pierre remarried to Claire, daughter of fellow Acadian Antoine Babin, at Natchez in January 1769.  Later that year, after the Spanish regained control of the colony following a revolt again Ulloa in the fall of 1768, Ulloa's successor agreed to let the Breaus and their kin settle where they wanted to, as long as it was on the river.  Pierre and Claire moved to Ascension on the Acadian Coast, where they were counted on the left, or east, bank, of the river in August 1770.  In the early 1770s, perhaps without permission, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to Grand Coteau at the southeastern edge of the Opelousas District where Pierre's older sister Ursule and her family had settled.  In 1774, Pierre owned 20 head of cattle, 5 horses and mules, 3 swine, and no slaves in the district.  A few years later, he acquired land at the northeastern edge of the Atakapas District on upper Bayou Teche at La Grand Pointe, also called La Pointe, near present-day Cecilia.  Family tradition says that he was one of the first settlers in the area, but his children's baptismal records and a 1788 census reveal that he may not have moved there from Grand Coteau until the early 1790s.  (His wife's succession record, dated 7 January 1781, calls her Mrs. Pierre Guidry "of Baillou Carencro.")  Pierre remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, called Peggy, daughter of Scotsman William Miller, probably at Grand Coteau in c1781.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Devalcourt, Eastin, Picou, Rees, and Thomas families.  Pierre's rise to economic and social prominence was slow but sure.  In 1785, he held two slaves in the Opelousas District.  In 1788, near Grand Coteau, he owned 60 head of cattle, 40 horses, and 5 slaves on 18 arpents frontage of land.  By 1812, he held 40 slaves at Grand Pointe--an astonishing number at that time and place (Jean Mouton dit Chapeau, for instance, held "only" 28 slaves that year).  By 1812, in fact, Pierre's social prominence was so secure that his daughter Célestine by his third wife was able to marry St. Martin Parish judge Ranson Eastin, a native of Virginia.  According to one authority, "Before his death ... [Pierre] had amassed a fortune in land, livestock, and slaves, including some 2,000 acres in the Prairie Gros[sic] Chevreuil east of the Teche and several tracts in the Carencro and Grand Coteau areas within the Opelousas District."  He died at his home at Grand Pointe in November 1825; the priest who recorded his burial said that Pierre was 93 years old when he died, but he was "only" 83; he was a widower; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Pierre's estate was valued at $200,000 at the time of his death.  He lived long enough to see the 12 of his 14 sons who survived childhood, four of his daughters, at least nine grandsons, and over a dozen granddaughters establish families of their own; he was, in fact, a great-grandfather many times over when he breathed his last at Grande Pointe in 1825.  He also witnessed the burial of six of his sons, four of them married, several of his daughters, one of them married, and many grandchildren who died before their time.  Most of the Guidrys of southwest Louisiana are descended from "the patriarch of Grande Pointe" and his dozen sons, who settled not only at Grande Pointe but also on Bayou Vermilion, at Carencro, and at Grand Coteau, where Pierre had settled originally.  

1

Oldest son Louis-David, called David, from his second wife, born at Natchez in c1769, married Marie-Modeste, daughter of French Creole Surgeon Antoine Borda, at Atakapas in September 1787; Marie's mother was a Martin.  They settled near Grand Coteau on the southeastern edge of the Opelousas District.  Their son Charles le jeune was born probably at Grand Coteau in November 1788 but died young, Louis le jeune was born in c1790, Alexis Onésime or Onésime Alexis was baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in June 1791, Pierre-Treville was born in April 1791, Baptiste le jeune in December 1794 but died "as a child" in February 1801, Augustin or Auguste le jeune was baptized at Opelousas, age 16 months, in July 1801, Émile was born in January 1802 but died young, Joseph le jeune was born in March 1806, and Antoine le jeune in January 1816 but died at age 5 months the following July.  Their daughters married into the Barras, Berard, Bossier, Dejean, Ducrest, Dugas, Dupré, Martin, and Mouton families.  David became partners with his brother-in-law, Jean Mouton dit Chapeau, in land speculation on the southwestern prairies.  According to one authority, in 1803 the pair "purchased from the Attakapas Indians more than 2,000 acres of prairie land on the Mermentau River in the Calcasieu, at that time the cattle frontier of Louisiana."   David died at his home near Grand Coteau in April 1821; the priest who recorded his burial said that David was 50 years old when he died; his succession record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1822.  

1a

Louis le jeune died probably at Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in March 1811.  He was only 21 years old and did not marry.  

1b

Pierre Treville married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Bernard of Carencro, at the the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1811.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their unnamed son died in St. Landry Parish 8 days after his birth in January 1814, Pierre Treville, fils in August 1812, Placide in April 1815, Alexandre in November 1817, Joseph le jeune in November 1819, Onésime in November 1821, their unnamed child, perhaps a son, died the day of its birth in August 1827, and Louis was baptized at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, age 3, in June 1837.  Pierre Treville, père died near Grand Coteau in December 1837; the priest who recorded his burial said that Pierre Treville was 44 years old when he died, but he was 46.  

Pierre Treville, fils married double cousin Elmire Marie, daughter of his great uncle Charles Guidry, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1836; Elmire's mother, also, was a daughter of Jean Bernard.  Their son Octave was born near Grand Coteau in January 1837.  ...

Placide married Elisa or Eliza, daughter of Benjamin McCleland, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1837.  Their son Edmond Placide was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1838.  ...

Alexandre died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in August 1838.  He was only 20 years old and did not marry.  

1c

Onésime Alexis married Marie Julie, Julie Euphrasie, or Euphrasie Julie, called Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Potier of Bayou Teche, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1813.  Their son Alexis, fils was born probably near Grand Coteau in August 1816, Onésime, fils in September 1820, Valéry in November 1824, Louis David in February 1830, and Benjamin in May 1838.  Their daughter Élisabeth attended school at Grand Coteau from September 1825 to April 1830.  Onésime Alexis may have remarried to Amelia Marie Vanhill or Vanhille at the Grand Coteau church in January 1840.  ...

1d

Augustin le jeune married distant cousin Angèle Melanie or Melanie Angèle, called Melanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Marin Martin of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1817.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their son Auguste Dupréville, called Dupréville, was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1818, Joseph in c1819 or 1820, Edmond died at age 7 months in June 1825, and Victor was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in September 1836.  Their daughter married into the Lyons family.  ...

Dupréville died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1837.  He was only 19 years old and did not marry.  

1e

Joseph le jeune married cousin Céleste, daughter of Jean Mouton dit Chapeau of Lafayette Parish, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1826; Céleste's mother, also, was a Borda.  Their son David Aristide was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1827, Alexandre Thelesmar in May 1830, Félix in February 1834, and Stanislas was baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age 1, in September 1837.  ...

2

Olivier, by his second wife, born probably at Ascension in c1771, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Semer, at Atakapas in June 1791.  They settled at Grande Pointe.  Their son Julien was baptized at Atakapas, age 1 1/2 months, in June 1795, Auguste le jeune was born at Grand Pointe in February 1799, Olivier, fils in September 1801, Joseph Treville, called Treville, in August 1809, and Louis  le jeune in October 1811.  They also had a son named Zephirin, unless he was Auguste le jeune.  Their daughters married into the David, Dugas, Landry, Patin, and Thibodeaux families.  Olivier, père died in St. Martin Parish in February 1838; he was 67 years old.  Some of his descendants moved to the Abbeville area of Vermilion Parish by the 1850s.  

2a

Zephirin married Deline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Dupuis of Manchac and Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1819. ...

2b

Olivier, fils married Isabelle or Élisabeth Belsire, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyrille Thibodeaux of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1822.  Their son Louis le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1824, Dupréville in c1825 but died at age 6 in September 1831, Olivier III was born in April 1827, Cyrille Trasimond in July 1828, Julien in April 1832, Arvillien in March 1835, and Olivier died 15 days after his birth in March 1836.  ...

2c

Joseph Treville married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Potier, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1831.  Their son Edmond or Édouard was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1832 but died at age 5 in September 1837, Joseph, fils was born in December 1836, and Louis le jeune in July 1839. ...

2d

Louis le jeune married Marie Eurasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvestre LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1832.  Their son Eugène was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1840.  ...

2e

Julien married Marie Emeranthe, called Emeranthe, daughter of French Creole Solastie Roy, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1832.  Their son Jules was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1838.  . ..

3

Joseph dit Mines, by his second wife, born probably at Ascension in the early 1770s, married Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique and Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Charles Hébert dit Manuel, at Atakapas in September 1793.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Joseph, fils was born at Atakapas in March 1797, Alexandre Laisan in May 1799, Antoine Levennes, also called Antoine dit Seven, in January 1811, Onésime in January 1812, and Eusèbe in May 1818.  Their daughters married into the Bergeron (French Creole, not Acadian), Duhon, Hébert, Patin, and Sonnier families.  Joseph, père's succession record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April 1837; he would have been in his mid-60s that year.  

3a

Joseph, fils married Marie Azélie, called Azélie or Zélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Comeaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1818.  Their son Joseph III was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1819, Augustin in Lafayette Parish in December 1823, Charles Oculi was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 years, 1 month, and Sosthène at age 3 months, 7 days, in March 1828, a few days after their father died.  Joseph, fils was "found drowned in a 'marret' ('marais" is a marshland, swamp, or lowland area) near L'ille aux Cannes" in March 1828; the Vermilionville priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph, fils was 33 years old when he died, but he was only 31; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1832, and a second succession record, calling him "Joseph Sr. of Iberville parish," was filed at the same courthouse in August 1838 (one wonders if this second succession record confuses Joseph, fils with his father).  

Joseph III married Marie Oliva, called Oliva, daughter of fellow Acadian Henry Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1839.  Their son Alexandre was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1840.  ...

3b

Alexandre Lessin married Marie Carmelite, called Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Francois Broussard dit Beausoleil of Pont du Vermilion or Pin Hook Bridge, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1821.  Their son Azemor was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 20 months, in February 1827, Alexandre, fils was born in September 1827, Lessin was baptized at age 1 1/2 in November 1830, Dupréville at age 13 months in June 1832, Éloi at age 1 in January 1834, Treville at age 1 in August 1835, Seven was born in April 1836 but died at age 1 in June 1837, and Jules was baptized at age 44 days in April 1838.  One of their daughters, Marie, died in Lafayette Parish within hours of her birth on 9 February 1824, but not before the priest from nearby Vermilionville, Father Michel-Bernard Barriere, formerly of St. Martin de Tours in St. Martinville, baptized her.  In the baptismal record, Father Barriere wrote a poignant description of little Marie and her short time in this world:  "I went to Mr. Jean dit son of Francois Beausoleil [Broussard, so Marie was born at her maternal grandfather's house near Pin Hook Bridge].  I baptized a young girl at birth ... but born with such a deformity that we could with reason, count on her days because of such a large growth on her head which was larger than the head itself, otherwise she was in a natural (perfect) state."  Marie was buried in the parish cemetery at Vermilionville the following day.  

3c

Antoine dit Seven married Hortense, another daughter of Jean Francois Broussard dit Beausoleil, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1831.  ...

3d

Eusèbe married Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1834.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1838.  ...

4

Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, from his second wife, born probably at Grand Coteau in July 1776, married Marie-Solange, called Solange, another daughter of Jean-Charles Hébert, at Atakapas in June 1797.  They settled on the Vermilion and at Grande Pointe.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, was born on the Vermilion in September 1806, Joseph Valmond in April 1813, Moïse in February 1815, Pierre Lasty in December 1817 but died at age 16 in September 1833, and Alexis was born in February 1820.  Their daughters married into the Hébert, LeBlanc, and Richard families.  ...

4a

Baptiste, fils married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Dugas, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1825.  Their son Théogène was born in Lafayette Parish in June 1826, Hermogène in October 1828 but died at age 3 in October 1831, and Sosthène died at age 14 days in February 1834.  Baptiste, fils's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1838; he would have been only 32 years old that year. 

4b

Joseph Valmond married Geneviève Azema, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Bourque, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1833.  Their son Jean Baptiste le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1835, and Joseph, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in April 1837.   ...

4c

Moïse married distant cousin Melanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1835.  Their son Joseph was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 40 days, in August 1836, and Alcide at age 2 months in April 1840.  ...

5

Paul-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, by his second wife, baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in July 1779, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Duhon, at Atakapas in May 1800.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their son Paul, fils was born on the upper Vermilion in July 1802 but died the following December, Leufroi was born in December 1803, Joachim in October 1810, another Paul, fils died at age 18 months in October 1813, Jean Baptiste was born in August 1814, and an unnamed son died at birth in August 1817.  Their daughter married into the Chiasson family.  Paul Hippolyte's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1820; he would have been 41 years old that year.  

5a

Leufroi married distant cousin Christine, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Dugas, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1822; Christine's mother, also, was a Duhon.  In c1835, they were perhaps the first Acadians to move to Texas.  They settled in Jefferson County before moving on to Liberty County.  ...

5b

Joachim married Marie, daughter of French Creole Joseph Giroud or Giroux, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1827.  They followed his brother Leufroi to southeastern Texas in the early 1840s.  They settled in the Beaumont area near the Louisiana border.  ...

5c

Jean Baptiste followed his older brothers to southeastern Texas in the early 1840s.  He lived north of Beaumont in Hardin County and may not have married.  

6

Augustin, by his second wife, baptized at Opelousas, age 5 weeks, in July 1780, married Adélaïde, also called Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Robichaux of La Pointe du Grand Chevreuil, at Atakapas in July 1805.  They settled at Grande Pointe and on the Vermilion before moving to Calcasieu Parish.  Their son Augustin, fils was born at Grande Pointe in June 1806, Ursin in February 1810, Edmond in December 1811, and Joseph was baptized at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, age 8 months, in January 1822.  Their daughters married into the Benoit and Michel (Anglo-American, not Acadian) families.  ...

6a

Augustin, fils married Marie Eléontine, Cléontine, or Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Guilbeau, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1827.  Their son Alexandre was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1829 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 11 1/2 months, in August 1830, Jean Lucien was born near Grand Coteau in June 1834 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 6, in June 1840, and Jean Huma was born near Grand Coteau in August 1838.  ...

6b

Ursin married Matilda, daughter of Anglo-American Nathan Forman, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1833.  Their son Gerasin was born in Lafayette Parish in June 1834, and Séraphin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 11 months, in November 1836.  They followed his Guidry cousins to southeast Texas in the 1840s and settled in Jefferson County.  Between 1860 and 1880, his sons were living in Hardin County, which had been formed from a portion of Jefferson.  ...

7

Louis, by his third wife, born probably at Grand Coteau in September 1784, married Céleste or Silesie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Savoie, at Opelousas in January 1805.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their son Louis, fils was baptized at Opelousas, age 4 months, in June 1806, Onésime in August 1808, Pierre Louis in December 1811, Joseph le jeune in June 1814, Hippolyte in May 1816, Alexis le jeune near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in August 1818, and Terence in c1819 but died at age 7 in Lafayette Parish in October 1826.  Their daughter married into the Breaux family.  Louis's estate record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1824; he would have been 40 years old that year. 

7a

Louis, fils married Marie Josette Fostin, called Josette, daughter of French Creole Solastie Roy, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1833.  Their son Pierre Solastie was born in St. Landry Parish in May 1836, Cyprien in September 1838, and Alexandre near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in January 1840.   ...

7b

Joseph le jeune married Marie Emeranthe, called Emeranthe, daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Lebleu, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1837; Emeranthe's mother was a Lejeune.  Their son Edmond was baptized at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, age unrecorded (but the priest insisted that the boy had been born in September 1827, when Joseph le jeune would have been 13!), in April 1838, and Joseph Will was born in February 1840.  

7c

Pierre Louis married Marie Josephine, 17-year-old daughter of French Creole Leufroi Latiolais, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1837.  Their son Pierre Louis, fils was born near Grand Coteau in December 1838, and Leufroi le jeune in December 1840.  ...

8

Charles, by his third wife, born probably at Grand Coteau in November 1785, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Bernard of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1816.  They settled near Carencro.  Their son Adolphe was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1819, Olivier Corneville near Grand Coteau in February 1821, Alexandre in Lafayette Parish in February 1823, Alexis was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 14 months, in December 1825, and Alfred was born in December 1831.  Their daughter married a Guidry double cousin.  ...

9

Victorin, by his third wife, born probably at Grand Coteau in March 1789, married Marie Zélie, called Zélie, daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Calais, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1809.  They settled at Grande Pointe.  Their son Edmond was born at Grande Pointe in April 1813.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc and Potier families.  Victorin died at Grande Pointe in March 1818; the priest who recorded his burial said that Victorin was 27 years old when he died, but he was 29; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following June.  His youngest child, daughter Virginie, was born two days before his death.  His only son survived to create a family of his own.  

Edmond married Marie Josette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1836.  Their son Pierre Victorin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 months, in April 1840.  ...

10

Antoine, by his third wife, baptized at home probably at Grand Coteau, date unrecorded, and then at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in September 1792, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Potier of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1820.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Antoine, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age unrecorded, in February 1823, Pierre Édouard at age 2 1/2 in March 1828, and Hippolyte was born in October 1830.  ...

11

Pierre, fils, by his third wife, born probably at Grande Pointe in April 1794, married Josephine, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyrille Thibodeaux of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1817.  Their son Désiré was born probably in St. Martin Parish in c1832 but died at age 4 in July 1836, Pierre Désiré died the day after his birth in April 1833, Olivier le jeune was born August 1835, and Joseph in February 1840.  ...

12

A son, by his third wife, name unrecorded and age unrecorded, died probably at Grande Pointe in February 1801.  

13

Another son, by his third wife, name and age unrecorded, died probably at Grand Pointe in November 1801.

14

Youngest son Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, by his third wife, born at Grand Pointe in October 1806, married Henriette, another daughter of Charles Potier, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1825, only 11 days before his father died.  Their son Louis Joseph was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1826, Alexandre Joseph in June 1828, and Adrien near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in November 1832.  ...

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste GUIDRY (c1761-)

Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, son of Jean Guédry and Anne Dupuis, and nephew of Pierre of Grand Pointe, born in Maryland in c1761, came to Louisiana from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in 1768 with his widowed mother and siblings and followed them to Fort San Luis de Natchez, on the river across from present-day Natchez, Mississippi.  Still a boy, he followed his mother to Ascension on the Acadian Coast, but he did not settle there.  In the 1780s, he moved to the Atakapas District, where his uncle Pierre had settled, and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Breaux, at Atakapas in June 1785.  They settled on the Vermilion and at Grande Pointe before moving out to Bayou Queue de Tortue.  Their daughters married into the Ford, Melançon, Semere, and Villier dit Ricard families.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Savoie and widow of Jean Charles Benoit, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1818; he was 57 years old.  ...

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by his first wife, born on the Vermilion in January 1786, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Semer, at Atakapas in June 1806.  Their son Jean Baptiste III was born at Grande Pointe in September 1807, Sosthène in October 1808, Joseph Dulcide, called Dulcide, in July 1812, and Théodule in May 1819.  Their daughter married into the Angelle family.  ...

1a

Joseph Dulcide married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Maurice Doucet of Iberville Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1831.  Their son Darmasse was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1832, and Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, in September 1834 but died in St. Martin Parish at age 4 in October 1838. ...

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Sosthène married Adrienne, another daughter of Maurice Doucet, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1832.  Their son Joseph Sosthène or Demosthène was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1837 but died at age 11 months in December 1838.  ...

1c

Jean Baptiste III married Marie Modeste, daughter of French Creole Léon Latiolais, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1835; Marie's mother was a Robichaux. ...

2

Augustin, by his first wife, born at Atakapas in c1788, died at his parents' home at Grande Pointe in January 1810.  He was only 22 years old and did not marry.  

3

Joseph, by his first wife, born at Atakapas in March 1791, married Melisere or Melissa, also called Modeste and Émilienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Melançon of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1813.  They settled at Grande Pointe and then in Lafayette Parish.  Their son Théogène was born at Grande Pointe in January 1817, Hermogène in February 1821, Julien in Lafayette Parish in November 1828, Eugène was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2, in January 1836, and Zephirin was born in October 1840.  They also had a son named Pierre.  Their daughters married into the Andrus and Hébert families.  ...

Pierre married double cousin Marie Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Melançon, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1839; Marie's mother was a Guidry. ...

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Narcisse, by his first wife, born at Atakapas in August 1799, married Emeranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric Blanchard of St. James Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1820.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in March 1822, Valéry in September 1826, Valsin in July 1829 but died at age 9 in September 1838, Désiré was born in January 1832, Jean Dosité in December 1837, and Alcide Honorat in December 1839.  Their daughter married into the Dugas family.  ...

5

Valéry, by his first wife, born in St. Martin Parish in September 1809, married Caroline, daughter of Anglo-American William Beard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in December 1834; Caroline's mother was a Bourque.  ...

6

Youngest son Celerin, by his first wife, born at Grande Pointe in January 1815, ...

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More Guidrys joined their kinsmen on the western prairies in the 1790s and early 1800s.  As a result, the southwestern parishes became a significant center of Guidry family settlement during the antebellum period:

Descendants of Joseph GUIDRY (c1749-1799)

Joseph, son of Claude Guédry and his first wife Anne Lejeune, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1749, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s.  They were deported to France in late 1758 aboard one of the Five Ships that reached St.-Malo in late January 1759.  They settled at nearby Châteauneuf and at St.-Suliac, where Joseph married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Comeau, in November 1772.  A year later, they went to Poitou with other Acadians from the port cities to settle on an influential nobleman's land.  The venture failed after two years of fruitless effort, and in December 1775, Joseph and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  They came to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and went to Ascension, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1788 and 1791, but their habitant could have been on upper Bayou Lafourche, where Spanish officials counted them in 1795.  They had more children in Louisiana.  They did not remain on the Lafourche, however.  Later in the decade, they moved to the Atakapas District, where Joseph died in February 1799, age 50.  His daughters married into the Dartez, Hébert, Senetiere, and Tenholt families.  The one who married an Hébert remained on the Lafourche, but the others settled at Atakapas.  His daughter Rosalie had a natural son named Isaac Valsin in St. Martin Parish in May 1816.  Only one of Joseph's sons created a family of his own, and settled on lower Bayou Teche.  

1

Older son Joseph, fils, born at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France, in July 1783, married Émilie, daughter of French Creole Pierre Bonvillain, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1817.  They settled on the lower Teche in St. Mary Parish.  Their son Joseph III was born on the lower Teche in March 1820, Gustave Pierre in January 1830, Désiré Émile in May 1831, and Jean Drosin in March 1833.  Their daughter married into the Garrett family.  ...

2

Younger son Augustin, a twin, born at Assumption in June 1793, probably died young.  

Descendants of Olivier dit Canada GUIDRY (c1764-)

Olivier, son of Augustin Guédry and Marguerite Pecot, born at Boston, Massachusetts, during Le Grand Dérangement, followed his family to Québec City, where they were counted in 1766, and then to St.-Jacques l'Achigan, on the St. Lawrence above the city, in 1767.  He came to Louisiana from Canada in the 1780s or early 1790s and married Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Aucoin and widow of Joseph Faulk, at Atakapas in January 1793.  Félicité was a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, and had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, now downtown Lafayette.  His neighbors called him Olivier dit Canada to distinguish him from the other Olivier Guidry in the area.  Some of this Olivier's sons also used the dit to distinguish them from their distant cousins with similar given names.  His daughter married into the Trahan family.  ...

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Oldest son Pierre dit Canada, born on the upper Vermilion in December 1796, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Claude Broussard dit Beausoleil, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1817.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their son Pierre, fils, also called Étienne was born on the Vermilion in March 1819 but died at age 1 year, 15 days, in March 1820, Joseph Lessin was born in October 1820, Joseph in November 1823, Treville was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 1 1/2 months, in October 1825, and Émile at age 8 months in April 1826.  Pierre dit Canada remarried to distant cousin Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Sonnier dit Cadiz, in a civil ceremony at the home of Judge Herbert Eastin in Vermilionville in May 1825, and sanctified the marriage at the Vermilionville church in May 1827; Julienne's mother was a Guidry.  Their son Sevigné was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in August 1833.  Pierre dit Canada may have owned 1,800 head of cattle on the Calcasieu prairie in 1850.  ...

2

Paul, also called Hippolyte, born on the upper Vermilion in March 1798, married Scholastique Claire, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Breaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1817.  Their son Hippolyte, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1818, and Joseph in March 1820.  Hippolyte may have owned 3,600 head of cattle on the Calcasieu prairie in 1850.  ...

Hippolyte, fils married Lucy, daughter of French Creole Martin Lebleu, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1838.  ...

3

Olivier dit Canada, fils, born on the upper Vermilion  in April 1800, married Marie, 16-year-old daughter of French Creole Pierre Meaux, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1821; Marie's mother was an Hébert.  Their son Olivier III was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 1 1/2 months, in October 1826, Geneus dit Canada was born in April 1828, Ernest dit Canada in July 1832, and Alexandre, a twin, was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 40 days, in June 1837.  ...

4

Alexandre, born on the upper Vermilion on Easter Sunday 1803, married Marie Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Calais, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1827; Céleste's mother was a Semer.  Their son Alexandre, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1827, Jean Baptiste Armas in January 1830, Alfred in March 1831, Onésime Adras in July 1832, Césaire Evariste in September 1833 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1835, Eugène was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 1 1/2, in November 1836, Étienne D'Assa was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1839, and Hippolyte le jeune in August 1840.  ...

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Youngest son Charles dit Canada, born on the upper Vermilion  in November 1805, married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1828.  Their unnamed child, perhaps a son, died in Lafayette Parish 7 hours after its birth in October 1829.  ...

Descendants of Francois GUIDRY (c1781-)

Francois, son of Jean-Baptiste Guédry and Marguerite Lebert, born in Nantes, France, in c1781, came to Louisiana aboard either Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, or Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed his family to Ascension on the river and then to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Unlike the  rest of his family, who remained on the Lafourche, Francois crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Atakapas District, where he married Céleste, daughter of Spanish Creole Jean Dartez and widow of Louis Thibaut, in November 1808.  They settled on lower Bayou Teche and then moved to the upper Vermilion valley.  Their daughters married into the Benoit, Gerbron, and Landry families, and perhaps into the Garrett family as well.  ...

1

Oldest son Euphrossie or Leufroi, born on the lower Teche in October 1815, married Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1833.  Their son Antoine was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1834, Leufroisy was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in April 1837, and Éloi was born in April 1839.  ...

2

Théodule, born on the lower Teche in September 1820, ...

3

Youngest son Edmond, born in Lafayette Parish in February 1823, ...

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Other GUIDRYs on the Western Prairies

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Guidrys in the western parishes with known lines of the family there:

Jean Marie Guidry's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1829.  His heir was Francois, probably his son.  The parish clerk who recorded the succession did not bother to list Jean Marie's parents' names or mention a wife, if he had one.  

Thérèse Émilie Guidry married Anglo-American John Garrett in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1839.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not bother to list the bride's or the groom's parents' names.  Judging by the location of the marriage, she may have been a daughter of Francois Guidry.  

Louis Guidry married Marguerite Sloane, widow of ____ Hathorn, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1840.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not bother to list the bride's or the groom's parents' names.  

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

In 1765 or 1766, Joseph Guédry, a bachelor in his early 30s, came to Louisiana either from Halifax via St.-Domingue or from Maryland.  He settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled in early 1764.  His was the first of many Guédry family lines established on the river:

Descendants of Joseph GUIDRY (c1735-1815)

Joseph Guédry, born in Acadia in c1735, came to Louisiana in the 1760s and married fellow Acadian Élisabeth Comeaux at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in May 1767.  A decade later, Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at St.-Jacques.  Their daughters married into the Gaudet, Trahan, and perhaps the Davies families.  Joseph died near Convent, St. James Parish, in November 1815; the priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph was 85 years old when he died, but he was closer to 80.  His sons settled on both sides of the river at St.-Jacques and in the Lafourche valley.  At least one of his grandsons, married to one of his granddaughters, also moved to the Lafourche.  

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Oldest son Donat, born probably at St.-Jacques in the late 1760s or early 1770s, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Bourg, at St.-Jacques in February 1793.  Their son Donat, fils was born at St.-Jacques in February 1796, Ursin in March 1798, Pierre-Placide in August 1801, and Louis in September 1810.  Their daughters married into the Lubilavish, Rome, and Theriot families.  Donat remarried to Henriette, daughter of Joseph Ackmann, Ragman, Ragmon, Raukman, or Rofenau of Galveztown, Iberville Parish, and widow of Benjamin Oubre, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in October 1814.  Their son Edmond was born near Convent in November 1816, Eugène in September 1819, Auguste in May 1823, and Sosthène died at age 15 or 16 months in February 1831.  ...

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Donat, fils, by his first wife, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Theriot, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in March 1818.  Their son Joseph Donat Eutrope was born in Ascension Parish in April 1835 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1836.   ...

1b

Ursin, by his first wife, died near Convent, St. James Parish, in June 1818.  He was only 20 years old and did not marry.  

1c

Pierre Placide, by his first wife, married Rosalie, daughter of German Creole Benjamin Oubre, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1831.  Pierre Placide died near Convent in November 1832; the priest who recorded his burial said that Pierre Placide was 27 years old when he died, but he was 31.  

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Louis, by his first wife, married Angélique, daughter of German Creole Eugène Oubre, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1838.  Their son Louis, fils was born near Convent in November 1838.  ...

2

Joseph, fils, born probably at St.-Jacques in c1773, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Vincent, at St.-Jacques in May 1795.  Their son Louis-Joseph was born at St.-Jacques in August 1797, a son, name unrecorded, "recently born," died in May 1799, Joachim was born in May 1805, Joseph III near Convent, St. James Parish, in August 1810, and Auguste in March 1819.  Their daughters married into the Lambert, Oubre, Rodriguez, and Theriot families.  Joseph, fils died near Convent in September 1835; he was 62 years old.  

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Joachim married Adélaïde, daughter of French Creole Joseph Caillouet, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in May 1832; Adélaïde's mother was a Thibodeaux.  Their son Joseph Léon was baptized at the Convent church, age 4 months, 18 days, in May 1835, and Joachim Telesphore was born in January 1837.  ...

2b

Joseph III died near Convent in October 1835.  He was only 25 years old and did not marry.  

3

Jean-Baptiste, also called Alexandre, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in January 1773, married distant cousin Marguerite, also called Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Comeaux, at St.-Jacques in July 1805.  They settled in St.-Jacques, which became St. James Parish, and then moved to the Lafourche valley by the 1820s.  

4

Alexandre, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in December 1777, married Marie Melanie, called Melanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Lambert, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in May 1809.  Their son Joseph was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in May 1810, and Alexandre, fils died a day after his birth in September 1811.  Alexandre, père died near Convent in October 1815; the priest who recorded Alexandre's burial said that he was 35 years old when he died, but he was closer to 38. 

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Pierre, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in May 1779, married Rosalie, daughter of French Creole Louis Denis, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in October 1809.  Their son Pierre, fils had been born near Convent in September 1807, Charles in April 1809, Jean Baptiste Armand, called Armand, was born in August 1813 but died at age 2 in August 1815, and Donat le jeune was born in November 1814.  Pierre remarried to Marcellite, daughter of French Creole Louis LaForet or LaForest of St. James Parish, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1839; judging by the baptismal records of their many children, they had either married in a civil ceremony in the 1820s or just lived together until they sanctified the union over a dozen years later.  Their son Jean had been born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1827, Savoir, a twin, in May 1828, Paul in c1830, Anaclet in c1832, and Joseph in c1834.  ...

5a

Pierre, fils, by his first wife, married Émelie or Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Paul Bourgeois, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1825. ...

5b

Charles, by his first wife, married first cousin Josephine, daughter of his uncle Jean Baptiste Guidry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1837.  They followed his uncle--that is, her family--to the Lafourche.  

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Youngest son Francois, born at St.-Jacques in c1783, married Adélaïde, called Délaïde, 21-year-old daughter of French Creole Louis Rodrique of St. John the Baptiste Parish, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1820.  Their son Jules was baptized at the Convent church, age 3 months, in June 1836.  ...

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In the late 1760s, a Guédry who had followed the Broussards to the Atakapas District moved to the river, married, and settled on the Acadian Coast:

Joseph GUIDRY (c1732-)

Joseph, son of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1732, brother of Jean, Pierre, and Ursule, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in February 1765 with the party led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and followed them to the Bayou Teche valley.  Spanish officials counted him in the "District of the Point," later called Fausse Pointe, in the spring of 1766, with no one else in his household.  Later in the decade, he moved to Ascension, where he was counted on the left, or east, bank of the river in 1770, still single.  He married Monique, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Dupuis, at Ascension in May 1773; he was 41 years old.  In 1777, they were living on the east bank of the river at Ascension.  They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

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Meanwhile, more Guédrys--eight of  them--came to Louisiana in the late 1760s from exile in Maryland:

In 1767, Ursule Guédry of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 37, sister of Jean, Joseph, and Pierre, came with husband Pierre-Paul Boutin of Grand-Pré, age 50, four children, ages 15 to 3, and a Boutin orphan, probably a niece, age 16.  The Spanish sent them to a new settlement, St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, on the river above Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  Ursule and her family moved to the Opelousas District in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  

In early 1768, two families, one led by a widow, both related, came from Port Tobacco, Maryland, with the large extended family led by brothers Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit.  Spanish governor Ulloa forced them to settle at Fort San Luis de Natchez, far up the river, across from present-day Natchez, Mississippi, but they did not remain there.  After Ulloa's successor, General Alexandro O'Reilly, released them from Natchez in 1769, and they moved downriver to Ascension, between St.-Jacques and St.-Gabriel:

Anne Dupuis, age 35, widow of Jean Guédry, came with five children--Firmin, age 16, Madeleine, age 14, Anne-Monique, called Monique, age 8, Jean-Baptiste, age 7, and Élisabeth, or Isabelle, age 3.  Anne, Firmin, and her daughters remained at Ascension, but Jean-Baptiste moved to the Atakapas District in the 1780s and, with his uncle Pierre, helped create a western branch of the family.  Anne's daughter married into the Breaux family.  

Pierre Guédry of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 26, younger brother of Jean, Joseph, and Ursule, came with wife Marguerite Dupuis, age 27, and daughter Marie, age 3.  Pierre remarried at San Luis de Natchez, and he and his new wife remained at Ascension until the mid-1770s, when they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District and established a western branch of the family.  

Descendants of Firmin GUIDRY (c1752-1799)

Firmin, son of Jean Guédry and Anne Dupuis, born probably at L'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1752, nephew of Joseph and Pierre, followed his family into exile in Maryland in 1755.  In 1768, he came to Louisiana from Port Tobacco, Maryland, with his widowed mother and siblings and followed them to Fort San Luis de Natchez, on the river across from present-day Natchez, Mississippi.  A year or so later, he followed his mother to Ascension on the Acadian Coast, where Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river in 1770 and 1777.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Landry, at nearby St.-Gabriel in 1786, but they settled at Ascension.  Their daughter married into the Allain family.  Firmin died at Ascension in February 1799; he was only 46 years old.  Most of his sons created families of their own.  His oldest son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His second and third sons settled upriver near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, and near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension.  

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in June 1788, married Madeleine Renée, called Renée, daughter of fellow Acadian Théodore Dugas, at Ascension in January 1806.  They settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes on upper Bayou Lafourche and raised a large family there.  

2

Sébastien-Joseph, born at Ascension in January 1790, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1812.  Their son Lucien Joseph was born near St. Gabriel in December 1813, Sébastien, fils in October 1821, and Eugène posthumously in October 1826 but died the following November.  Their daughters married into the Blanchard, Broussard, and Richard families.  Sébastien died near St. Gabriel in February 1826; the priest who recorded his burial said that Sébastien was 30 years old when he died, but he was 36.  

Lucien married Marie Geralde or Gérarde, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Leandre Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1835. ...

3

Édouard-Chanter, a twin, born at Ascension in August 1795, married Marie Francoise, called Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1823.  They lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their son Firmin Philosin was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in December 1824.  Édouard remarried to Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Emmanuel Breaux of St. James Parish, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in March 1829.  They, too, lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their son Joseph was born in Ascension Parish in July 1830, and Joseph Dufrossard near St. Gabriel in June 1832.  Édouard died near St. Gabriel in November 1835; he was only 40 years old. 

4

Jean-Marie, Édouard's twin, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1812.  He was only 16 years old.  

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The arrival date of two members of the family are difficult to pinpoint:

Antoine Guédry of Île Royale was living at Nantes, France, in November 1775, a young man in his early 20s.  In July 1780, a full five years before any of his kin came to Louisiana from France, Antoine married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Hébert, at New Orleans.  They settled in the city.  

Olivier Guédry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in c1764, may have come down the Mississippi from Canada in the 1780s or early 1790s.  He married a fellow Acadian at Atakapas in January 1793 and settled on the prairies.

Descendants of Antoine GUIDRY (c1754-)

Antoine, son of Charles Guédry and his first wife Adélaïde-Madeleine Hébert, born probably at La Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in c1754, Île Royale, was deported to France with his family aboard the British transport Supply in late 1758.  They reached St.-Malo in March 1759 and settled at nearby Bonnaban, at LaGouesniere, and at St.-Servan.  In the early 1770s, Antoine followed his father, stepmother, and siblings to Poitou as part of what proved to be a failed attempt to settle Acadians on an influential nobleman's land and retreated with them to Nantes, France, in November 1775.  Later in the decade, perhaps as a sailor, he found his way to Louisiana, where he married distant cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Hébert and widow of Augustin Morin, at New Orleans in July 1780.  Marie was from St.-Gabriel.  They remained at New Orleans.  In 1785, when his father, stepmother, and siblings, reached Louisiana from France, they settled at Manchac, just north of St.-Gabriel.  His father may have died at his home in New Orleans in September 1797. ...

1

A son, name unrecorded, born probably at New Orleans in c1784, died in the city, age 3, in July 1787.  

2

Antoine-Eusèbe was baptized at New Orleans, age unrecorded, in February 1786.

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Most of the Guédrys who emigrated to Louisiana--7 families, 31 members of the family in all--came from France nearly a generation after the first of their kin reached the colony.  They arrived on three or four of the Seven Ships of 1785 and contributed substantially to the size of the family in Louisiana:

Jean-Baptiste Guédry of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, crossed aboard either Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July, or Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August.  With him were wife Marguerite Lebert of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 32, three children--Pierre-Jean-Marie, age 9, Francois, age 4, and infant Marguerite-Félicité--and niece Marguerite-Marie Lebert, age 14, an orphan.  Marguerite may not have survived the crossing or may have died in New Orleans soon after they reached the colony.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Ascension, where he died in the early 1790s.  His brother Joseph took in his orphaned children.  Francois followed his uncle to Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche before moving to the Atakapas District, where he married in 1808. ...

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Five more families crossed on Le Beaumont.  Most of them went to St.-Gabriel de Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, but one family went to St.-Jacques and another to Ascension:

Charles Guédry of Port-Royal, age 59, twice a widower, crossed with four children--Anne-Laurance, age 26, Joseph, age 18, Jean-Pierre, age 17, and Jacques-Servais, age 15.  They went to Manchac.  Charles did not remarry.  Anne-Laurance married into the Doiron family and settled at Manchac, as did her brothers Joseph and Jean-Pierre.  Jacques-Servan moved downriver to Ascension.  Charles died at New Orleans, perhaps at his oldest son Antoine's home, in September 1797; Charles was 71 years old.  Anne may have died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in 1809, age 50.  

Jean Guédry dit Grivois, age 57, came with wife Marie LeBlanc, age 55, two sons--Jean, fils, age 27, and Jacques, age 17--and cousin Josèphe-Marie Célestin dit Bellemère, age 19.  They were among the few 1785 arrivals who went to St.-Jacques, which had become crowded with Acadians over the previous two decades.  By 1791, Jean and Marie had moved upriver to Ascension and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Both their sons married at St.-Jacques, but the older one followed his parents to the upper Lafourche.  

Joseph Guédry of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 36, Jean-Baptiste and Pierre-Janvier's brother, came with wife Madeleine Comeau, age 34, and four children--Marie-Jeanne, age 9, Marguerite-Adélaïde, age 7, Joseph, fils, age 2, and infant Renée-Élisabeth.  They went to Ascension and lived for a while on upper Bayou Lafourche before moving on to the Atakapas District in the late 1790s.  One of their daughters remained on the Lafourche and married into the Hébert family. 

Pierre-Janvier Guédry of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 31, Jean-Baptiste and Joseph's brother, came with wife Marie-Josèphe Lebert of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 31, four children--Pierre-Joseph, age 10, Marie-Rose, age 6, Jean-Pierre, age 4, and infant Joseph-Firmin--and nephew Pierre-Jean-Joseph Joachim Lebert, age 13, an orphan.  They also went to Manchac before moving on to the upper Lafourche.  Nephew Pierre-Jean-Joseph-Joachim moved on to the Atakapas District.  

Charles's son Pierre-Jean Guédry, age 23, came with his French wife Louise Blandin, age 27, and no children.  They settled at Manchac.

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A Guédry wife crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the seven ships, which reached New Orleans in September:

Marguerite-Victoire Guédry of Île Royale, age 34, came with husband Jean-Charles Boudrot of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 51, and five children and stepchildren, ages 21 to infancy.  They went to Ascension.  Marguerite-Victoire remarried to Spanish Creole Gregorio Chico at Ascension in February 1793 and settled with him and her many children on upper Bayou Lafourche.  

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A large family crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in December.  They probably followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, or they may have gone directly to the old Fort Bute area at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge:

Claude Guédry of Cobeguit, age 71, came with second wife Anne Moyse, age 54, and six children--Marie-Cécile, age 21, Francois-Xavier, age 19, Suliac-Charles, age 17, Malo-Bénoni, age 15, Pierre-Claude, age 12, and Olivier, age 8.  At Manchac, Marie-Cécile married into the Aucoin, Benz, and Robichaux families.  Most of Claude's sons settled there as well, but youngest son Olivier settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

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Most of Acadians from France settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but not the Guédrys--at least not at first.  Many of them remained on the river above New Orleans, at St.-Jacques, Ascension, and especially at Manchac:  

Pierre-Jean GUIDRY (1762-1833)

Pierre-Jean, eldest son of Charles Guédry and his second wife Agnès Bourg, born at LaGousniere, France, near St.-Malo, in February 1762, became a carpenter in France.  He followed his parents to Poitou in the early 1770s as part of what proved to be a failed attempt to settle Acadians on an influential nobleman's land and retreated with them to Nantes, France, in November 1775.  He married Frenchwoman Louise Blandin probably at Nantes in the early 1780s.  They came to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed his parents to St.-Gabriel de Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  Pierre died in East Baton Rouge Parish in May 1833; the priest who recorded his burial said that Pierre was "ca. 69 yrs." old when he died, but he was 71.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Descendants of Joseph GUIDRY (1766-1800s)

Joseph, second son of Charles Guédry and his second wife Agnès Bourg, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in March 1766, followed his parents to Poitou in the early 1770s as part of what proved to be a failed attempt to settle Acadians on an influential nobleman's land and retreated with them to Nantes, France, in November 1775.  He came to Louisiana with his widowed father and siblings aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed them to St.-Gabriel de Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  They settled near old Fort Bute, north of Bayou Manchac, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Breaux, in October 1795.  Joseph died probably at Manchac by February 1807, when his wife remarried at nearby St. Gabriel.  Both of his sons abandoned the river and moved to Bayou Lafourche.  

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Older son Jean-Charles, called Charles, born at Manchac in January 1799, married Céleste, daughter of German Creole Charles Falgout of St. Charles Parish and widow of Joseph Gaudet, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1839.  They settled on Bayou Lafourche.  

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Younger son Joseph-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, born at Manchac in October 1801, married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Hébert, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1823.  They settled on Bayou Lafourche.  

Jean-Pierre GUIDRY (1768-)

Jean-Pierre, third son of Charles Guédry and his second wife Agnès Bourg, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, January 1768, followed his parents to Poitou in the early 1770s as part of what proved to be a failed attempt to settle Acadians on an influential nobleman's land and retreated with them to Nantes, France, in November 1775.  He came to Louisiana with his widowed father and siblings aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed them to St.-Gabriel de Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  They settled near old Fort Bute, north of Bayou Manchac.  He married Marie Céline, daughter of Pierre Vachard, at Baton Rouge in June 1813; he was 45 years old.  Jean remarried to Vicenta, daughter of Spanish Creole Juan Andres Rodriguez, at Baton Rouge in April 1819; he was 51 year old.   He may have had no children with either of his wives.

Descendants of Jacques-Servais GUIDRY (1770-)

Jacques-Servais, fourth and youngest son of Charles Guédry and his second wife Agnès Bourg, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, March 1770, followed his parents to Poitou in the early 1770s as part of what proved to be a failed attempt to settle Acadians on an influential nobleman's land and retreated with them to Nantes, France, in November 1775.  He came to Louisiana with his widowed father and siblings aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed them to St.-Gabriel de Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  They settled near old Fort Bute, north of Bayou Manchac, but Jacques did not remain there.  He married Isabelle, also called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Antoine Babin, at Ascension in September 1797.  Their daughters married into the Frederick, Hébert, and Samson families.  Only his oldest son created a family of his own, and settled at the western edge of Ascension Parish.  

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Oldest son Jean-Narcisse, called Narcisse, born at Ascension in October 1798, married Agnès, daughter of French Creole Michel Bodin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December 1821.  They settled near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their son Jérôme Trasimond was born near St. Gabriel in September 1822, Damas Émile in September 1827, Émile Joseph in Ascension Parish in March 1833, Louis Thomas in November 1835, and a newborn son, name unrecorded, died near St. Gabriel in April 1838.  ...

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Jean died at Ascension 8 days after his birth in July 1803.

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Youngest son Valéry Appolin, born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1808, died in Ascension Parish in October 1830.   He was only 22 years old and did not marry.

Descendants of Francois-Xavier GUIDRY (1764-1827)

Francois-Xavier, eldest son of Claude Guédry an his second wife Anne Moyse, born at St.-Suliac, France, near St.-Malo, in September 1764, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed them to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, and then to old Fort Bute at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where Spanish officials counted them in 1788.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre LeBlanc, probably at Manchac in the early 1800s.  Francois died probably at Manchac, East Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1827; he was 63 years old.  

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Oldest son Charles Francois, born at Manchac in February 1809, ...

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Louis, born at Manchac in October 1810, ...

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Youngest son Célestin, baptized at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, age 4 months, in September 1818, ...

Descendants of Suliac-Charles GUIDRY (1765-)

Suliac-Charles, second son of Claude Guédry an his second wife Anne Moyse, born at St.-Suliac, France, near St.-Malo, in November 1765, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed them to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, and then to old Fort Bute at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where Spanish officials counted them in 1788.  He married Rose-Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Aucoin, at Manchac in December 1789.  Rose also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their daughter married into the Perron and Ramirez families.  ...

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Oldest son Firmin-Isidore, born at Manchac in August 1792, married Azélie, also called Julia, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1812.  Their son Firmin, fils was born probably at Manchac in August 1815, Sosthène in May 1818, and Villeneuve in May 1823.  Firmin Isidore died in East Baton Rouge Parish in September 1834; the priest who recorded his burial said that Firmin was 38 years old when he died, but he was 42.  

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Jean Baptiste, born at Manchac in July 1804, ...

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Youngest son Charles, born at Manchac in January 1812, died at age 2 in September 1815.

Descendants of Malo-Bénoni GUIDRY (1767-)

Malo-Bénoni, third son of Claude Guédry an his second wife Anne Moyse, born at St.-Suliac, France, near St.-Malo, in January 1767, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed them to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, and then to old Fort Bute at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where Spanish officials counted them in 1788.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Ambroise Dupuis, at Manchac in July 1797.  Marguerite also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their daughter married into the Landry family.  ...

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Older son Angel died at Manchac the day after his birth in October 1806.

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Younger son Jean Baptiste, born in St. James Parish in January 1810, married Jeuly Augustine, called Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Trahan, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1834.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in East Baton Rouge Parish in August 1836.  ...

Descendants of Pierre-Claude GUIDRY (1771-1810)

Pierre-Claude, fourth son of Claude Guédry an his second wife Anne Moyse, born at St.-Suliac, France, near St.-Malo, in June 1771, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed them to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, and then to old Fort Bute at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where Spanish officials counted them in 1788.  He married Anne-Marie or Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian René Landry and widow of Simon-Francois Daigle, at Manchac in August 1797.  Marie also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their daughter married into the Courfaut family.  Pierre Claude died at Manchac in June 1810; he was only 39 years old.  

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Older son Francois, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 1 1/2, in July 1800, ...

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Younger son Pierre, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 8 months, in January 1803, ...

Descendants of Jacques GUIDRY (c1768-1801)

Jacques, younger son of Jean Guédry and Marie LeBlanc, born in France in c1768, became a carpenter there.  He came to Louisiana with his parents, older brother, and a cousin aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and followed them to St.-Jacques, where he married Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of French Creole Jacques Bonvillain of St.-Charles des Allemands, in July 1789.  Their daughters married into the Destreval, LeBoeuf, Michel (French Creole, not Acadian), and Oubre families.  Jacques died at St.-Jacques in October 1801; he was only 34 years old.  

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Oldest son Michel, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in May 1794, probably died young.  

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Philemon, born at St.-Jacques in May 1795, married Eulalie, daughter of Spanish Creole Louis Rodrique or Rodrigues, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in November 1815.  Their son Philemon, fils was born near Convent in February 1817, Jean Baptiste Fulger in October 1818, Marcel in April 1820, Pantaléon in July 1825, and Alexandre Urbin in March 1829.  Their daughter married into the Michel family and settled on Bayou Lafourche.  ...

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Pierre, born at St.-Jacques in October 1796, married Marie Basiline or Basilite, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Duhon, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1822.  Their son Pierre Thomasin was born near Convent in October 1824 but died at age 9 in August 1834, Pierre Lucien was born in January 1828, and Pierre Théobert in June 1830 but died at age 3 1/2 in March 1834.  ...

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Youngest son Paul-Jacques or Jacques-Paul, called Jacques, born posthumously at St.-Jacques in February 1802, married Angeline or Eugènie, daughter of French Creole Paul Pertuit, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1832; Angeline's mother was a Michel.  ...

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Other GUIDRYs on the River

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Guidrys on the river with known lines of the family there:

Anne Guidry, "a widow," died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1809.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she was 73 years old when she died, but he did not bother to record her parents' names or mention her dead husband.  Was this Anne-Laurance, daughter of Charles Guidry, who married Jean Baptiste Doiron and lived at Manchac, north of St. Gabriel?  If so, she would have been closer to 50 than to 73 in 1809!

Jean, son of Jean Guidry, died near Baton Rouge in June 1814.  He was only 12 years old.  

Joseph Guidry married Marguerite Tircuit.  Their daughter Céleste married Firmin, son of Firmin Lepetre of Etaples, pas-de-Calais, France, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in September 1816.  One wonders which of the many Joseph Guidrys this happened to be.  

Anne Marie Guidry, "Canadian," married Jean Baptiste Bou, "Canadian," in a civil ceremony, place unrecorded, in c1819, and sanctified the marriage at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1824.  The priest who recorded the sanctification did not bother to give the bride's or the groom's parents' names.  One wonders if Anne Marie was actually Acadian.  

Éloi, son of Pierre Guidry and Mary Josep or Josey, married Kisio or Kesia, daughter of Joseph Guru or Perkins, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1838.  Their son Manuel was baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age unrecorded, in November 1839.  

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

During the late 1780s and early 1790s, Spanish officials were counting a few Guidrys, all of them from France, on upper Bayou Lafourche:

Jean Guidry dit Grivois's succession record was filed at what became the Thibodauxville courthouse, Interior Parish, in August 1807.  He would have been 79 years old that year.  

Descendants of Pierre-Janvier GUIDRY (c1754-1793)

Pierre-Janvier, called Janvier, third son of Claude Guédry and his first wife Anne Lejeune, born at L'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1754, was deported probably from Île St.-Jean to France with his family aboard one of the Five Ships in late 1758.  They reached St.-Malo in January 1759 and lived at nearby Châteauneuf and St.-Suliac.  Janvier became a workman in France.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Lebert, at Plouër, near St.-Malo, February 1773, on the eve of their going to Poitou as part of what proved to be a failed attempt to settle Acadians on an influential nobleman's land.  After the ventured failed, they retreated with other Acadians to Nantes in November 1775.  They came to Louisiana with four children and a Lebert nephew aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and settled near old Fort Bute, Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  They had more children in Louisiana, including sons.  In the early 1790s, they moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Theirs daughter married into the Dantin and Pitre families.  Janvier died at Assumption in September 1793, in his late 30s.  Three of his fives son married and remained on the Lafourche.  

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Oldest son Pierre-Joseph, born at Châtellerault, France, in October 1774, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Bergeron, at Assumption in January 1798.  Their son Charles-Joseph, also called Charley Joseph, was born at Assumption in August 1800, Jean-Baptiste in May 1802, Napoléon in November 1808, and Alexandre in April 1814.  Their daughters married into the Benoit, Chiasson, Harris, and Lirette families.  Pierre Joseph died by June 1822, when a parish clerk noted in a civil document at the Houma courthouse that Pierre's wife Marguerite's "2nd husband is Jean Baptiste Beausergeant."

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Charles Joseph married Lucie Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Chiasson, in civil ceremonies in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes in September and October 1821, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1825.  Their son Jean Baptiste was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1827, Charles Jean Baptiste in January 1831, and Hubert Ovile in October 1834.  Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1838; the priest who recorded his burial said that Charles was 35 years old when he died, but he was 37.  

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Jean Baptiste married Irene, 19-year-old daughter of French Creole Albert Beausergeant of St. Landry Parish, in civil ceremonies in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes in September and October 1821.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Marie Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1823.  Their son Jean Baptiste Napoléon was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1830, Alexandre D. in November 1835, and Jean Baptiste, fils in February 1837.  ...

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Napoléon married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Aucoin, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1832; they had registered the marriage in Terrebonne Parish earlier that month, so they probably were living in that parish.  Their son Jean Napoléon was born probably in Terrebonne Parish in January 1836, and Onésime Henri in July 1837.  ...

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Alexandre married Félicité Marcel.  Their son Joseph Diogène was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1839. ...

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Jean-Pierre, born at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France, in July 1781, married Marianne, daughter of French Creole Pierre Daspit of New Orleans, at Assumption in September 1801.  Their son Pierre-Eugène, called Eugène, was born at Assumption in June 1802.  ...

Eugène married Marie Elise or Lise, 19-year-old daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Charpentier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1821; Marie's mother was a Gaudet.  Their son Eugène Seroul was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1826, Paul in March 1836, Jean Julien in January 1837, and Adolphe in December 1838.  ...

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Joseph-Firmin, called Firmin, born at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France, in October 1784, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Ignace Carret, at Assumption in January 1802.  They settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their son Joseph-Leandre was born at Assumption in October 1802, Janvier le jeune in Ascension Parish in January 1808, and Jean Pierre le jeune in Assumption Parish in February 1809.  Their daughter married into the Angelito and Doucet families.  ...

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Joseph Leandre married Marcellite Susanne, 17-year-old daughter of French Creole Jacques Terrebonne of Chenière Caminada on the Gulf of Mexico, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1828.  Their son Joseph Théophile was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1829.  ...

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Janvier le jeune married Adele, daughter of French Creole Augeron, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1829; Adele's mother was a Mazière.  Their son Joseph Firmin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1829, Charley Adrien in March 1834, Jean Baptiste Lagande in January 1838, and Louis in November 1839.  ...

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Jean Pierre le jeune married Marie Théotiste, 18-year-old daughter of French Creole Pierre Richoux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1831. ...

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Bénoni was born at Manchac in February 1787.  His succession record was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in September 1807.  He would have been only 20 years old that year and may not have married, unless he was the Bénoni Guidry who married Loyse Fitche probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1830s.  

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Youngest son Jean-Joseph, born at Manchac in October 1788, also may have died young.

Descendants of Jean GUIDRY, fils (c1758-1790s)

Jean, fils, also called Jean-Fabien, elder son of Jean Guédry and Marie LeBlanc, born on Île St.-Jean in c1758, was deported to France as an infant later that year.  He became a carpenter in France and came to Louisiana with his parents, younger brother, and a cousin aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He followed them to St.-Jacques, where he married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Boudreaux, in March 1786.  Céleste, a native of Île St.-Pierre or Île Miquelon, had come to Louisiana aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships.  By 1791, they had moved upriver to nearby Ascension, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river, but they actually were living on upper Bayou Lafourche.  They may have lived briefly in the Opelousas District in the early 1790s.  Their daughter married into the Daunis family.  Jean, fils died by October 1794, when his wife remarried at Assumption.  

Jean-Charles, born at Ascension in July 1790, ...

Descendants of Olivier GUIDRY (c1777-)

Olivier, fourth and youngest son of Claude Guédry an his second wife Anne Moyse, born in France in c1777, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He lived with them at Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge.  Later in the decade, he followed them to old Fort Bute at Manchac but did not settle there.  He moved to the upper Bayou Lafourche valley in the 1790s and married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Bergeron of St.-Jacques, at Assumption in August 1800.  They settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes on upper Bayou Lafourche before moving down into Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their daughters married into the Autin, Barrios, Charpentier, Danos, and Furet or Yuvet families.  One of his sons settled in Terrebonne Parish.  ...

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Oldest son Édouard, baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in March 1804, ...

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Valmond, born at Ascension in February 1807, ...

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Joseph, born in Ascension Parish in June 1808, married Charlotte, 20-year-old daughter of French Creole Michel Morvant, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1838.  Their son Joseph Ulysse was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1839.  ...

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Ulgere, born in Assumption Parish in March 1811, married Césaire, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Savoie, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1834.  Their son Ulgere Valéry was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1835, Lucien in October 1836, and Ulysse Auguste in May 1838.  ...

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Marcellin, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in c1814, married, while a resident of Terrebonne Parish, Telcide, 17-year-old daughter of Guillaume Danos of Iberville Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1834.  Their son Joseph Marcellin was born probably in Terrebonne Parish in November 1835.  ...

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Youngest son Moïse, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1824, ...

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In the early antebellum period, perhaps because of economic pressures from the growth of the sugar industry, more Guidrys left the river and settled on the bayou, some as far down as Bayou Terrebonne:  

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste GUIDRY (1773-)

Jean-Baptiste, also called Alexandre, third son of Joseph Guidry and Élisabeth Comeaux, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in January 1773, married distant cousin Marguerite, also called Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Comeaux, at St.-Jacques in July 1805.  They settled in St.-Jacques, which became St. James Parish, and then moved to the Lafourche valley by the 1820s.  Their daughters married into the Charpentier, Guidry, and Roger families. ...

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Their oldest son, name and age unrecorded, died at St.-Jacques in September 1807.

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Francois, born in St. James Parish in November 1812, ...

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Edmond, born in St. James Parish in c1813, married cousin Elmire Irma Azel, 16-year-old daughter of French Creole Hubert Bellanger of St. James Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1835; Elmire's mother, also, was a Comeaux.  Their son Joseph Ulgere was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1837, and Edmond Michel in December 1840.  ...

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Jean Baptiste Sylvère, born near Convent, St. James Parish, in January 1816, ...

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Jérôme, born in St. James parish in October 1817, (but the priest who recorded his marriage said was a native of St. John the Baptist Parish), married Annette, daughter of Louis Arcement, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1839. ...

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Francois Célestin, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1822, ...

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Jean Froisin, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1824, ...

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Pierre Carville, born in Assumption Parish in October 1825, ...

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Joseph Hermogène, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1830, ...

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste GUIDRY (1788-1825)

Jean-Baptiste, eldest son of Firmin Guidry and Marguerite Landry, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in June 1788, married Madeleine Renée, called Renée, daughter of fellow Acadian Théodore Dugas, at Ascension in January 1806.  They settled at Ascension near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their daughter married into the Blanchard family.  Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in April 1825; he was only 36 years old.  

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Oldest son Thomas Hubert, called Hubert, Uber, or Ubert, born at Ascension in December 1806, married Cléonise, Léonise, or Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1827.  Their son Joseph Fostin was born in Assumption Parish in March 1829, Joseph in November 1830 but died at age 2 in November 1832, Joseph Aristide was born in June 1832, and Joseph Casimir in February 1836.  ...

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Gédéon, born in Ascension Parish in August 1808, married Armelise or Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Alain Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1826.  Their son Jean Baptiste Firmin was born in Assumption Parish in September 1827, Agnan in November 1830, Joseph Félix in April 1833, and Joseph Telesphore in August 1837.  ...

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Édouard Sabin, born in Ascension Parish in December 1810, died in Ascension Parish in July 1833.  He was only 22 years old.  

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Narcisse Cosme, born in Assumption Parish in September 1815, ...

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Basile Leufroi, called Leufroi, born in Ascension Parish in January 1818, married Eléonore, daughter of fellow Acadian Apollinaire Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1838.   ...

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Isidore Jean Baptiste, born in Assumption Parish in May 1820, died in Assumption Parish at age 14 months in July 1821.

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Youngest son Jean Baptiste Gérard, born posthumously in Assumption Parish in September 1825, died in Ascension Parish at age 2 1/2 in May 1828.  

Descendants of Joseph-Frédéric GUIDRY (1780s or 1790s-)

Joseph Frédéric, called Frédéric, son of Joseph Guidry and Élisabeth Breaux, married Anne Rosalie, daughter of Acadian Pierre LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1811 (one wonders if the groom's parents were actually Joseph Guidry and Élisabeth Comeaux of St. James Parish on the river).  Their daughters married into the Badeaux and Knobloch families.  They may have had no sons, but at least the blood of this line survived.  

Descendants of Jean-Charles GUIDRY (1799-)

Jean-Charles, called Charles, elder son of Joseph Guidry and Marie-Madeleine Breaux, born at Manchac on the river in January 1799, married Céleste, daughter of German Creole Charles Falgout of St. Charles Parish and widow of Joseph Gaudet, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1839.  They settled on Bayou Lafourche. ...

Charles Joseph, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1839, ...

Descendants of Joseph-Hippolyte GUIDRY (1801-)

Joseph-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, younger son of Joseph Guidry and Marie-Madeleine Breaux, born at Manchac on the river in October 1801, married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Hébert, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1823.  They settled on Bayou Lafourche.  ...

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Older son Joseph Hippolyte, fils, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1824, ...

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Joseph Adrien, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1826, ...

Descendants of Charles GUIDRY (1809-)

Charles, second son of Pierre Guidry and his first wife Rosalie Denis, married first cousin Josephine, daughter of his uncle Jean Baptiste Guidry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1837. ...

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Older son Jean Aristile, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1837, ...

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Pierre, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1840, ...

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Other GUIDRYs in the Lafourche/Terrebonne Valley

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Guidrys in the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou Terrebonne valley with known lines of the family there:

Jean Guidry died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1812.  His succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse later that month.  The clerk who recorded his death and succession did not bother to give his parents' names, mention a wife, or even tell his age at the time of his death.  

Romain Guidry married Élise Sevain probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1820s.  Their son Joseph Guillaume was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1824, and Eugène Drosin in August 1825.  

Jean Baptiste Guidry married Constance Naquin probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1820s.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1828.  

Zephirin Guidry married Delphine Exnicios probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1820s.  One wonders if he was the Zephirin, son of Olivier Guidry, who married Deline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Dupuis of Manchac and Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1819.  

Rosalie Elodie Guidry married Anglo-American Henry Charles Davies in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1835.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not bother to give either the bride's or the groom's parents' names.  

Béloni, or Bénoni, Guidry married Loyse Fitche probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1830s.  

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

The great majority of Guidrys in South Louisiana were Acadians.  However, some South Louisianians who carried the name were not exactly Acadian:

Pierre Guidry, an homme de couleur libre--that is, a free man of color--married Marie Louise Jean Louis, probably a free woman of color.  Their son Pierre, fils married Élisabeth, daughter of Louis Gagne or Gagneaux and Sarah à Mr. Dumartrait, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1838.  Their son Louis, described by the recording priest as a "mul.libre," or free mulatto, was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1839.  Pierre, père may have been owned by one of the Guidrys of Grande Pointe, perhaps by Pierre the Patriarch himself, and either had been set free by his master or had been born free, his mother having earned her freedom.  No matter, he took the Guidry name, as did his son and his grandson.  

Valérie Guidry, a femme de couleur libre, or free woman of color, died in St. Martin Parish in October 1836.  She was 40 years old.  

CONCLUSION

Guédrys settled early in Acadia and were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Augustin and Joseph Guédry, one married, the other single, came to the colony with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  They followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley, where Augustin's wife, a Broussard, died in the epidemic that devastated the Teche community that summer and fall.  Augustin then disappears from the historical record--he, too, may have died soon after reaching the colony; there is no evidence that he remarried.  Joseph remained on the Teche for a few more years and then moved to Ascension on the river, where he married and settled.  Not until later in the decade did a Guédry "return" to the prairies.  Ursule, wife of Pierre-Paul Boutin, had come to the colony from Maryland with her family in 1767 and moved to the Opelousas District a year or so later.  Her younger brother Pierre Guédry of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, also had come to the colony from Maryland, in 1768 with the Breau clan from Port Tobacco.  The Spanish forced him and the other Breau kin to move far upriver at Fort San Luis de Natchez.  After their release from that virtual prison, Pierre and his new wife, whom he had married at Natchez, moved downriver to Ascension.  In the early 1770s, following his sister Ursule, Pierre took his family to the Grand Coteau area of the Opelousas District, where he remarried to his third wife in c1781.  In the 1790s, he settled on a substantial piece of land he had acquired at La Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche and became the biblical Jacob of South Louisiana.  A dozen of his 14 sons survived childhood, married, and created families of their own at Grande Pointe, on the upper Vermilion, at Carencro, and at Grand Coteau.  From the 1780s into the early 1800s, more Guidrys, including Pierre's nephew Jean-Baptiste and a cousin from Canada, came to the prairies and added substantially to the western branch of the family. 

More Guédry families settled along the Mississippi than on the western prairies, but, thanks to Pierre of Grande Pointe's amazing fecundity, the number of river-parish Guidrys remained somewhat smaller than the number of their kinsmen west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  The first Guédry to settle on the river, Joseph, came to the colony either from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 or from Maryland in 1766, married at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1767, and created a substantial line of the family in what became St. James Parish.  In 1768, other Guédrys, including Pierre of Pigiguit, came to the colony from Port Tobacco, Maryland, and were forced to settle far upriver at Natchez.  After their release from that distant settlement, they went to Ascension.  Pierre and nephew Jean-Baptiste moved on to the western prairies, but Pierre's nephew Firmin remained at Ascension and created another line of the family in what became Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Joseph of Atakapas appeared at Ascension in 1770, married there a few years later, his early 40s, but he and his wife had no children.  Antoine Guédry of Île Royale and Nantes, France, came to the colony from France by July 1780, when he married a fellow Acadian at New Orleans.  They settled in the city.  The largest group of Guédrys to emigrate to Louisiana--31 in all--came from France on several of the Seven Ships of 1785 nearly a generation after the first of their kin arrived.  Most of these Guédrys went to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, and to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge.  They established at least seven new family lines at Manchac, Baton Rouge, St.-Gabriel, Ascension, and St.-Jacques.  By the mid-1790s, however, a few of them had drifted down to the upper Bayou Lafourche valley, creating a third center of family settlement.  In the early 1800s, probably as a result of economic pressures from the growth of the sugar industry, more river-parish Guidrys moved to bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne, so that by the 1850s the Guidrys along the bayous nearly equaled in numbers their kinsmen on the river.

During the early antebellum period, Guidrys on the prairies were staging their own Exodus from the center of family settlement along the upper Teche.  By 1850, nearly a dozen Guidry families, many of them descendants of Pierre of Grande Pointe, were living at the far edge of the old Opelousas District in Imperial Calcasieu Parish, where they ran hundreds and even thousands of head of cattle on the wide, open prairies.  Pierre Guidry owned 1,800 head and Hippolyte Guidry 3,600 head of cattle in 1850.  Even more remarkable, Guidrys, along with Dugass, were among the first Acadians to cross the Sabine and settle in southeastern Texas.  Leufroi Guidry, a grandson of Pierre of Grande Pointe, took his family to Jefferson County, near the Louisiana border, on the eve of the Texas War of Independence, which broke out in October 1835.  Brothers Joachim (called Joshua by his new neighbors) and Jean Baptiste and cousin Ursin followed in the early 1840s and settled in Jefferson and Hardin counties.  And, like the Dugats of Liberty and Chambers counties, there they remained.  

The great majority of Guidrys in South Louisiana and East Texas were descendants of Claude dit Gravois dit La Verdure.  There were, however, non-Acadian Guidrys on the western prairies whose membership in the family was a predictable result of the institution of slavery--African Creoles who had been owned and in some cases emancipated by members of the Guidry family and who took the family's surname.  Guidry "free persons of color" appear in local church records as early as the 1830s.  

Judging by the number of slaves they owned, many Guidrys lived comfortably on their farms and plantations on the western prairies, along the river, and in the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys.  Some, especially on the western prairies, held enough slaves to qualify as planters, with 20 or more slaves, and a few were considered to be great planters, with 50 or more slaves.  ...

Dozens of Guidrys served Louisiana and Texas in uniform during the War Between the States. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name evolved from Guédry to Guidry, probably the result of Spanish influence, though some members of the family retained the original spelling.  The family's name also is spelled Gaidrais, Geddry, Gidri, Guduy, Guéderie, Guédery, Guédoy, Guédri, Guidoy, Guidri, Guidrie, Guiedri, Guiridy, Guitry, Lledri.  This family should not be confused with the much smaller Guidroz family, whose progenitor, a native of Bern, Switzerland, came to Louisiana as a soldier before 1762; they settled at New Orleans, Pointe Coupée, and on the western prairies.  

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 588-92, 1490-92, 2236, 2499-2502; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.); Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 173; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3; NOAR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 6; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 14, 18; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 103, 184; White, DGFA-1, 771-74; White, DGFA-1 English, 158; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 79-81, 169-70.

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Anne-Laurance [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her widowed father & 3 half-brothers; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 18, shows that, in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, she was born aboard ship, & that all of her family survived the crossing; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Laurence-Anne GUÉDRY, says her godparents were Xavier BOURG & Francoise HÉBERT, & lists her family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls her Anne-Laurence [GUÉDRY] & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls her Anne-Laurence, sa [Charles GUÉDRY's] fille, age 26, on the embarkation list, Ana Lorenza, su [Carlos GUÉDRY's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Anne-Laurence GUÉDRY, his [Charles GUÉDRY's] daughter, age 26, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her widowed father & 3 half-brothers; BRDR, 2:263, 338 (PCP-19, 12), her marriage record, calls her Ann GUÉDRY of St.-Servant, St.-Malo, gives her & his parents' names, calls her mother Madeleine HÉBERT, says her parents were residents of East Baton Rouge, that her husband's parents also were from St.-Malo, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Jean GOUDREAU & Pierre GUÉDRY. 

Although her marriage was recorded in the Pointe Coupée church, it probably took place at the southern edge of the Baton Rouge district, where their families settled.  The Baton Rouge district did not have a church of its own until 1793, so priests from Pointe Coupée officiated at baptisms, weddings, & funerals there until it did.  

For some reason, the editors of BRDR place her husband in the DUHON, not the DOIRON, family section.  There is no doubt that he was a DOIRON, not a DUHON.  

02.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Augustin GUÉDRY, & lists him singly.  Why?

03.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Charles GUÉDRY, & lists him with no wife, 3 sons, & a daughter; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 18, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, all of his family survived, including wife Madeleine HÉBERT, age 32, son Antoine, age 5, daughters Marguerite, age 6, & Anne-Dorathé, age 2 mos., who was born aboard ship, Francois-Xavier BOURG, age 20, & Marie BROS, age 12, fille d'un 1er lit de Madeleine; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 376-78, Family No. 463, calls him Charles GUÉDRY, details her birth & baptism, gives his parents' names, says he was a carpenter & ploughman, details his first marriage, calls his first wife Madeleine HÉBERT, does not give her parents' names but gives her first husband's name, says she was born c1726, that they married c1751 but gives no place of marriage, says she died 23 Apr 1760 & was buried 24 Apr 1760 at Bonnaban, details his second marriage, including his second wife's parents' names, does not say when or where she died, includes the birth/baptismal & marriage records of daughter Marguerite by his first wife, born 9 Mar 1752, Louisbourg, Île Royale, married 22 Aug 1780 to Jean-Charles BOUDROT, St.-Similien, Nantes, son Antoine by his first wife, born c1754 but gives no birthplace, daughter Laurence-Anne by his first wife, born 1 Jan 1759, baptized 16 Mar 1759, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Xavier BOURG & Francoise HÉBERT, son Pierre-Jean by his second wife, born A.M. & baptized 18 Feb 1762, LaGouesniere, godson of Ambroise LONGUESPÉE & Marie-Francoise BOURG, son Joseph by his second wife, born & baptized 21 Mar 1766, St.-Servan, godson of Jean LONGUEPÉE & Marie HENRY, son Jean-Pierre by his second wife, born & baptized 28 Jan 1768, St.-Servan, godson of Pierre FOREST & Marie HENRY, son Jacques-Servais by his second wife, born & baptized 7 Mar 1770, St.-Servan, godson of Jacques HEUZE & Marguerite GUÉDRY, & son Théodore-Félix by his second wife, born & baptized 27 Nov 1773, St.-Servan, godson of Théodore TÉRRIOT & Félicité AUCOIN, says he, his first wife, stepdaughter Marie-Madeleine BRAUD, & daughter Marguerite were residing at La Pointe-à-la-Jeunese, Île Royale, in 1752, says he, his first wife, stepdaughter Marie BRAUD, daughters Marguerite & Anne-Dorothée & son Antoine disembarked at St.-Malo from du Supply on 9 Mar 1759, & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Charles GUÉDRY, details his birth, says he was baptized "in the Parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Port Royal in Acadie," which was the parish for the lower river, says he was a carpenter, gives his parents' names, says he married Madeleine HÉBERT c1745, that she was born c1726 & died in 1760, details his marriage to Agnès BOURG, says she was born c1736 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, says she died on 4 Oct 1782 at "les Haunt-Pavee," age 46, & was buried 5 Oct 1782 at St.-Similien, Nantes, includes the death/burial record of son Théodore from his second wife, died age 2 & buried 22 Jan 1776, St.-Donatien, Nantes, the birth/baptismal & marriage records of daughter Marguerite-Victoire, baptized 9 Mar 1752, Île Royale, resident of St.-Similien, Nantes, married Jean-Charles BOUDROT 22 Aug 1780, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Charles GUÉDRY, cieur de long, age 57, on the embarkation list, Carlos GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Charles GUÉDRY, pit sawyer, age 57, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with 3 sons & a daughter; NOAR, 6:144 (SLC, F4, 51), his death/burial record, calls him Carlos GUIDRY, "native of Port Royal in Canada, resident of Acadia," gives his parents' names, calls his mother Susana BRASSAUX, but does not mention a wife or wives.

His wives' names also can be found in the marriage records of his children in BRDR, 2:338-39, 341.  After the death of his second wife, he did not remarry.  

Why did Francois-Xavier BOURG travel with Charles's family aboard Supply in 1758-59?  Does Francois-Xavier's association with Charles GUÉDRY have anything to do with Charles's marrying Agnès BOURG in 1761?  Agnès & Francois-Xavier were not siblings, so they may have been cousins.  

What was Charles doing in New Orleans at the time of his death?  Living there?  Visiting?  His oldest son Antoine by his first wife had settled there in the early 1780s.  Did Charles die at Antoine's home, where he went to live in his old age?

How was Charles kin to Jean GUÉDRY, who also went to LA aboard Le Beaumont?  Were they brothers?  Cousins?

04.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Claude GUÉDRY; White, DGFA-1, 773, give his birth year & parents' names; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 103, shows that as a result of the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, he lost his first wife, Anne LEJEUNE, age 34, at Châteauneuf 18 Apr 1759 nearly 3 months after they reached France, as well as 2 of their 5 children--son Charles, age 3, who also died at Châteauneuf, 15 Apr 1759, & son Augustin, age 10 months, who died 28 Feb 1759, a little over a month after they reached St.-Malo, but 3 of his children survived the terrible crossing--sons Jean-Baptiste, age 9, Joseph, age 7, & Pierre[-Janvier], age 5.

His father & older brother, also named Jean-Baptiste, were hanged for piracy in Boston when Claude was 12 years old.  

He probably moved from Bayou des Écores to the Baton Rouge district because one his older sons by his first wife, Pierre-Janvier, had settled there.

05.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Élisabeth GUÉDRY.

06.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Firmin GUÉDRY; BRDR, 2:339, 436 (SGA-14, 2, #4), his marriage record, calls him Fermin GUIEDRI, gives his & his wife's parents' names, calls his father Juan Bautista, says his parents were "of Assumption," but give no witnesses to his marriage; BRDR, 2:339 (ASC-4, 31), his death/burial record, calls him Firmin GUIDRY, age 46 years, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152.  

07.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Francois [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 2 siblings, & an orphan; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Francois, son [Jean-Bte GUÉDRY's] fils, age 4, on the embarkation list, Francisco, su [Juan Bautista GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Francois GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] son, age 4, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 28th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his parents, 2 siblings, & an orphan; Hébert, D., Acadians Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Franco, su [Juan Bautista GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Francois GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] son, no age given, on the complete listing, says he was in the 51st Family aboard Le Beaumont with his father, 2 siblings, & an orphan, & that they were from the ship Bon Papa; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:208, 334 (SM Ch.: v.5, #126), his marriage record, calls him Francois GUIDRY of Nantes, gives his & his wife's parents' names as well as the name of his wife's first husband, says both of his parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, that his wife was from du bas [on the lower] Vermilion, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Evan BOWLES, Denis & Eugene CARLIN.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497.

His parents were dead by 1791.  His mother may have died soon after reaching New Orleans; note that she was not with the rest of the family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont.  His father probably waited at New Orleans for the third ship, Le Beaumont to arrive with relatives & followed his brother Joseph to Ascension, where Francois appears with the family of uncle Joseph GUIDRY in 1791.  So his widowed father was dead by then.

08.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Francois GUÉDRY; BRDR, 4:252 (SJO-11, 21), his death/burial record, calls him Francois GUIDRY, age 63 yrs., but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.

Evidence of his marriage can be found in the baptismal record of Carlos Francisco GUIDRY, dated 8 May 1809, in BRDR, 3:385 (SJO-6, 60), which calls the parents Francois Carlos [GUIDRY] & Maria LEBLANC, & says the boy's grandparents were Claude [GUIDRY] & Ana MOISES of Acadia & Pedro [LEBLANC] & Geneveva RICARD of Acadia.  Who else would this be but Claude's son Francois-Xavier?  

09.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jacques [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents & a brother; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jaques, son [Jean GUÉDRY's] fils, charpentier, age 17, on the embarkation list, Santiago, su [Juan GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jaques GUÉDRY, his [Jean GUÉDRY's] son, carpenter, age 17, on the complete listing, says he was in the 25th Family on the embarkation list & in the 26th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents & a brother, details his marriage in LA but does not include his wife's parents' names or the date or place of marriage, & says he was buried 15 Oct 1801, age 34, but gives no place of burial; BRDR, 2:342 (SJA-4, 19), his death/burial record, calls him Santiago GUÉDRY, age 34 years, husband of Maria BONVILIN, & gives his parents' names.

Where is his marriage record?  A Donato FREDERIC married a Marie BONVILLAIN, daughter of Jacques BONVILLAIN & Charlotte ST. IVE, at St.-Jacques on 13 Jul 1789.  See BRDR, 2:105, 299 (SJA-2, 6).  There is no doubt that the Marie BONVILLAIN who supposedly married Donato FREDERIC was the same Marie BONVILLAIN who married Jacques GUIDRY.  The birth/baptismal record of Pedro GUIDRY, son of Santiago GUIDRY & Maria BONVILIN, dated 9 Apr 1797, in BRDR 2:342 (SJA-3, 152), calls the boy's maternal grandparents' Santiago BONVILIN & Carlota SANTIVE [ST. IVES].  The birth/baptismal record of Escolastica [Scholastique] GUIDRY, daughter of Santiago GUIDRY & Maria BONVILIN, dated 19 May 1799, in BRDR, 2:338 (SJA-3, 183), gives the same maternal grandparents.  The birth/baptismal record of Pablo Santiago (Paul-Jacques) GUIDRY, son of Santiago GUIDRY & Maria BONVILIN, dated 2 May 1802, in BRDR, 2:342 (SJA-3, 237), also gives the same maternal grandparents.  So there is no question about the identity of Jacques GUIDRY's wife.  

Marie's putative first husband, Donato FREDERIC, must have died very soon after he married her because the birth/baptismal record of Genoveva (Geneviève) GUIDRY, daughter of Santiago GUIDRY & Maria BONVILAIN, dated 22 Aug 1790, in BRDR, 2:339 (SJA-3, 36), says that the girl was born 27 Jun 1790.  Subtracting 9 months from the girl's birthday, one gets Sep 1789 as her conception date, only 2 months after Marie supposedly married someone who was not the girl's father!  One suspects that there may be a mistake in the 13 Jul 1789 marriage record at St.-Jacques recorded in SJA-2, 6--that the groom in the marriage record should be not Donato FREDERIC but ... Jacques GUIDRY.  Note that in this marriage record, Donato's parents are given as Juan [FREDERIC] & Maria LEBLANC "of St. Peter of Micvant," wherever that is.  Hmmm.  This sounds a lot like Jacques GUIDRY's parents--Jean GUIDRY & Marie LEBLANC.  Either the priest at St.-Jacques made a mistake, or this is a transcription error on the part of the good folks who edited that volume of the Baton Rouge Diocesan Records.  Santiago & Donato sound similar.  But where did they get the surname FREDERIC?  It does not sound like any of the variants of GUÉDRY/GUIDRY.  

10.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jacques [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his widowed father & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jacques-Servais GUÉDRY, says his godparents were Jacques HEUZE & Marguerite GUÉDRY (his older sister), & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Jacques [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jacques, son [Charles GUÉDRY's] fils, journallier, age 15, on the embarkation list, Jacques, su [Carlos GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jacques GUÉDRY, his [Charles GUÉDRY's] son, day laborer, age 15, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his widowed father & 3 siblings; BRDR, 2:46, 339 (ASC-2, 74), his marriage record, calls him Jacque GUIDRY, calls his wife Isabel BABIN, gives his parents' names & the name of his wife's first husband but not her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Ramon BRAUD, Henriette BLANCHARD, & Joseph LEBLANC dit Dubour.

The baptismal record of daughter Carmelite, dated 5 Jan 1801, in BRDR, 2:338 (ASC-5, 145), calls his wife Agnès-Isabelle.

11.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife & 2 sons; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jean GUÉDRY, califat, age 50, on the embarkation list, Juan GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Jean GUÉDRY, calker, age 50, on the complete listing, says he was in the 25th Family on the embarkation list & the 26th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his wife & 2 sons, details his son Jean's marriage in LA, including his son's wife's parents' names but gives no place of marriage, details his son Jacque's marriage in LA but gives no marriage date or place, & says son Jacques was buried 15 Oct 1801, age 34, but gives no place of burial; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:248 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: year 1807), his succession inventory, calls him Jean GUIDRY m. Marie LEBLANC, but does not give his parents' names or his date of death.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 53, 79, 131, 179.

His birth year is based not on the passenger list of Le Beaumont but on a compromise of the ages given in the Ascension census of 1791, the Assumption censuses of 1795 & 1797, & the Lafourche census of 1798.  

How was he kin to Charles GUIDRY, who also sailed to LA on Le Beaumont but went to the Baton Rouge district with the majority of the passengers from that ship?  Were they brothers?  Cousins? 

His wife's succession record, dated 17 Sep 1807, in Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:347 (Houma Ct.Hse.: Succ. #1), calls him Jean GUIDRY, "also known as GRIVOIS, " so he used his ancestors' dit, Grivois. 

12.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents & a brother; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Jean [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jean, son [Jean GUÉDRY's] fils, charpentier, age 27, on the embarkation list, Juan, su [Juan GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jean GUÉDRY, his [Jean GUÉDRY's] son, carpenter, age 27, on the complete listing, says he was in the 25th Family on the embarkation list & in the 26th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents & a brother, & details his marriage in LA, including his & his wife's parents' names, but gives no place of marriage; BRDR, 2:110, 340 (SJA-2, 2), his marriage record, calls him Juan & Juan Femia GEDRI, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says all 4 parents were from "St. John Island, Can.," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Josef COLOETR [CLOUÂTRE] & Maria MICHEL.

His possible move to the Opelousas District is based on the baptismal record of daughter Scholastique, dated "probably" 30 Aug 1795, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:376 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p.137), which says the girl was born on 4 Jul 1794 but doesn't say where, & does not say that the father, Jean, fils, was deceased at the time of the baptism.  

For the thorough mess surrounding the other marriage(s) of Céleste BOUDREAUX, see the footnote to her profile.  

13.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his widowed father & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Pierre GUÉDRY, says his godparents were Pierre FOREST & Marie HENRY, & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Jean [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jean, son [Charles GUÉDRY's] fils, journallier, age 17, on the embarkation list, Jean, su [Carlos GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jean GUÉDRY, his [Charles GUÉDRY's] son, day laborer, age 17, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his widowed father & 3 siblings; BRDR, 3:388, 846 (SJO-3, 140), the record of his first marriage, calls him Juan GUÉDERIE, calls his wife Maria Celina VACHA (VACHARD), gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "of St. Malo," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Juan B. POIRET & Francisco LEJEUNE; BRDR, 3:388 (SJO-3, 189), the record of his second marriage, calls him Juan [GUIDRY] of Nantes, France, gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Antonio PINO & Thomas LOSADA..

So what was the nationality of his first wife, & why did he wait so long to marry?

14.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2499, 2500, calls him Jean; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:115, 370-71 (SM Ch.: v.3, #66), one of his marriage records, calls him Jean GUIDRY "de Maryland en Nouvelle Angleterre [from Maryland in New England], says his wife was "de la paroisse l'Assomption du fleuve du Mississippi [from Assumption Parish on the Mississippi River], gives his & his her parents' names, says he was a minor son & she was a minor daughter, but gives no witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:371 (LSAR: Opel.: 1785-398), another of his marriage records, calls him Jean GUIDRY "of 'Mariloine' [Maryland], New England," says his wife was "of Assumption parish at LaFourche," gives his & her parents' names, but gives no witnesses to his marriage.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 436; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 18; De Ville, Acadian Coast, 1779, 29, 35. 

Arsenault calls his parents Jean-Baptiste & Anne-Madeleine, but Wall of Names calls them simply Jean & Anne.  

His birth year is a compromise of the ages given in the censuses at Ascension in 1770 & 1777.  The age given in the Spanish report of 1768 is too young if he served in the militia in 1779. 

15.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife, 3 children, & a mineure au dit named Margueritte, no surname given; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 103, shows the fate of his family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote for his father's profile, above; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 380-81, Family No. 465; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Jean Bte GUÉDRY, charpentier, age 36, on the embarkation list, Juan Bautista GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY, carpenter, age 36, on the complete listing, says he was in the 28th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his wife, 3 children, & mineure au dit Marguerite GUÉDRY, details his marriage, & says that son Pierre-Jean-Marie was baptized in 1776 but gives no place of baptism, & daughter Marguerite-Félicité was baptized in 1785 but gives no place of baptism; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Juan Bautista GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY, no age given, on the complete listing, says he was in the 51st Family aboard Le Beaumont with no wife, 3 children, & an orphan, & that they were from the ship Bon Papa; <acadian-cajun.com/ship3.htm>, calls him Jean-Baptiste GUEDRY, & lists him with no wife, 3 children, & an orphan, with the notation "... this family is from Le Bon Papa."  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497.

If he crossed on Le Bon Papa, which reached New Orleans in July, why is he also on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont, which arrived in August?  Where was his wife on the Le Beaumont debarkation list?  Did she cross with them on Le Bon Papa, the first ship, die soon after they reached New Orleans, he then waited for relatives to arrive on the third ship, Le Beaumont, & took his family to Ascension with older brother Joseph?  Jean-Baptiste does not appear on any LA censuses, so he must have died soon after his wife did, leaving their children to be raised by relatives.  The clue that Jean-Baptiste took his children to Ascension is son Francois's appearance in the 1791 census there with the family of uncle Joseph GUIDRY.  What happened to Jean-Baptiste's 2 younger children, who also do not appear in any LA censuses?  They, too, probably died soon after they reached the colony, & only Francois survived to carry on the line.

16.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean-Pierre [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Pierre GUÉDRY, does not give his godparents' names, & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls him Jean-Pierre, son [Pierre GUÉDRY's] fils, age 4, on the embarkation list, Juan Pedro, su [Pedro GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Pierre GUÉDRY, his [Pierre GUÉDRY's] son, age 4, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; BRDR, 2:223a, 340 (ASM-2, 61), his marriage record, calls him Juan Pedro GUIDRY of Nantes, France, calls his wife Mariana DASPIT of New Orleans, gives his & her parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Valentin SOLET & Santiago VERRET.

17.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY; BRDR, 2:272, 340 (ASC-1, 124), his marriage record, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, gives his & his wife's parents' names, calls his parents Augustin [GUÉDRY] & Anne HÉBERT of Assumption Parish (sic), & says the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph BUTEN & Joseph DUPUY.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 18.  

The "Assumption Parish (sic)" in his marriage record is accurate--it is l'Assomption Parish, Pigiguit, back in Acadia.  

Thanks in part to Bona Arsenault, there is some confusion about the identity of the 2 Joseph GUIDRYs on the river.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2499, says that Joseph GUIDRY, son of Augustin GUIDRY & Jeanne HÉBERT, married Élisabeth COMEAUX in 1767.  He probably got this from the marriage record of Joseph GUÉDRY & Élizabeth COMMEAUX, dated 19 May 1767, in Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, & Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 424--which does not give the bride's or the groom's parents' names.  Arsenault says that Élisabeth was the mother of Joseph's sons Donat, Joseph, & Alexandre.  Arsenault also says that this same Joseph GUIDRY married a second time, to Monique DUPUIS, daughter of Jean DUPUIS & Anne BREAUX, on 24 May 1773, at St.-Jacques, & that Monique was the mother of his daughters Félicité & Judith.  However, the St.-Jacques census of 1777 shows that Élisabeth COMEAUX was still very much alive 4 years after Joseph was supposed to have remarried & that Élisabeth was most likely the mother of sons Donnat age 8, Joseph age 7, Alexandre age 5, & daughters Félicitée age 3, & Judicq age 1.  See De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 14.  There is a marriage record for a Joseph GUIDRY, son of Augustin GUIDRY & Anne[sic] HÉBERT, marrying Monique DUPUY, daughter of Jean DUPUY & Anne BRAUD, at Ascension, not St.-Jacques, on 24 May 1773.  See BRDR, 2:272, 340 (ASC-1, 124).  Since men back then were not allowed to remarry unless their wives were dead or their marriage was annulled, & the latter case was exceedingly rare among Acadians, the Joseph GUIDRY who was married to Élisabeth COMEAUX could not have been the son of Augustin & Anne HÉBERT despite Arsenault's claim.  On top of all that, a Joseph GUIDRY appears in the Ascension census of 1770, age 30 & single, & then reappears at Ascension again in the census of 1777, age 45[?!], with wife Marie[sic] DUPUIS when the other Joseph GUIDRY was counted at St.-Jacques still married to Élisabeth COMEAUX.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 18.  Thus, there had to have been 2 Joseph GUIDRYs in the river settlements at this time, as reflected in this listing.  Wall of Names, 18, agrees, listing 2 Joseph GUÉDRYs coming to LA without wives or children.  

To complicate matters further, there was a Joseph GUIDRY, evidently unmarried, at Atakapas in the mid-1760s.  This Joseph GUIDRY in fact appears on a list of Acadians who exchanged card money at New Orleans in Apr 1765, & in an Apr 1766 census at Atakapas, so  he came to LA in Feb 1765 with the party led by Joseph BROUSSRD dit Beausoleil.  See <thecajuns.com/cardmoney.htm>; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 124.  Since all of the other Joseph GUIDRYs who came to LA--there were 4 more of them!--did not arrive until 1785, the Atakapas GUIDRY is likely one of the river settlement GUIDRYs, probably the one who married Monique DUPUY.  

As to the confusion with Joseph of Ascension's wife's name in the Ascension census of 1777, found in Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 18, the record is clear:  it was Monique, not Marie, DUPUY who married Joseph GUIDRY of Ascension in May 1773.  See BRDR, 2:272, 340 (ASC-1, 124).  Arsenault, p. 2499, agrees.  So why is Joseph's wife called Marie, her sister's name, in the 1777 census?  Strange.

West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 79, usually a reliable source, also confuses the Joseph GUIDRYs discussed above & has Joseph of Atakapas moving to the river &, following Arsenault, marrying Élizabeth COMEAU in 1769[sic].  Again, the Joseph GUIDRY who married Élisabeth COMEAUX in 1767 was not the one who lived in the Atakapas.  Joseph, husband of Élisabeth COMEAUX, may have come to the colony in 1765 from Halifax via St.-Domingue, like the other Joseph, but he settled at St.-Jacques, not Atakapas.  It is anyone's guess who were the parents of the St.-Jacques Joseph, called Joseph GUÉDRY 2 by Wall of Names.  

18.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY 2; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, & Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 424, his marriage record, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, calls his wife Élizabeth COMMEAUX, but does not give their parents' names or any witnesses to his marriage.  See also De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 14. 

See note 17, above, for a discussion of the confusion between him & another Joseph GUIDRY on the river.  Who were this Joseph's parents?  When did he come to the colony?  In 1765 from Halifax via St.-Domingue?  From MD in 1766?  

19.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife & 4 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 103, shows the fate of his family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote to his father's profile above; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 378-80, Family No. 464; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 381, Family No. 466; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 46-47, Family No. 91, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, says he was born in c1752 "in the parish of L'Assomption in Acadie," which was Pigiguit, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, including his wife's birth year, birthplace, & parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal record of daughter Anne-Rosalie-Marguerite, baptized 20 Dec 1774, Monthoiron, Vienne, goddaughter of Vincent AMIRAULT & Marie LEBLANC, & details the families participation in the Leigne les-bois settlement in Poitou in the 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, Family No. 141, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, says he was born c1749, does not give his parents' names, says he was a calker & seaman, that he married c1774, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marie-Jeanne, baptized 20 May 1776, St.-Donatien, Nantes, daughter Marguerite, died age 3 & buried 14 Mar 1778, St.-Martin, Chantenay, son Joseph, fils, baptized 11 Jul 1783, St.-Martin, Chantenay, & daughter Reiné-Élizabeth, baptized 20 Jan 1785, Paimboeuf, details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the 1770s, & their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, califat, age 36, on the embarkation list, Josef GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Joseph GUÉDRY, calker, age 36, on the complete listing, says he was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his wife & 4 children, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, but does not give a place of marriage, & says he owned 6 arpents of land but does not say where or when; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:371 (SM Ch.: v.4, #174), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph GUIDRY, of Acadia, parents unknown, m. to Magdeleine COMEAU.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

The daughter named Anne-Rosalie-Marguerite, born in the Poitou region of France in 1774, was the one who, called Marguerite, died at age 3 & was buried at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, in Mar 1778.  She was not the daughter Marguerite, born in c1778, who went to LA with the family in 1785.  The second Marguerite probably was named for her dead sister.

Who was the Olivier in his household at Assumption in1795?  The estimated birth year of this Olivier (c1773) does not match the birth year of Olivier GUIDRY, son of Claude GUIDRY & his second wife Anne MOÏSE (c1777), Joseph's half-brother, who lived in the same area at the time.  The Olivier in Joseph's household certainly was not the Olivier GUIDRY, son of Pierre GUIDRY & his second wife Claire BABIN of Grand Pointe in the Atakapas District.  That Olivier GUIDRY married Victoire SEMER at Atakapas in 1791.  Another Olivier GUIDRY of Atakapas, son of Augustin GUIDRY & probably Théotiste BROUSSARD, married Félicité AUCOIN at Atakapas in 1793, so this is not him, either.  Perhaps the Olivier in Joseph's household in 1795 was not a GUIDRY after all.  If not, what was he?  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 57.

20.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Joseph [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his widowed father & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 376-78, Family No. 463, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, gives his parents' names, says his godparents were Jean LONGUESPÉE & Marie HENRY, & that his family resided at St-Suliac from 1762-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Joseph [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Joseph, son [Charles GUÉDRY's] fils, charpentier, age 18, on the embarkation list, Josef, su [Carlos GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Joseph GUÉDRY, his [Charles GUÉDRY's] son, carpenter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his widowed father & 3 siblings; BRDR, 2:153, 339 (SJO-3, 7), his marriage record, calls him Josef GIDRY, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says both sets of parents were from St.-Malo, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Francisco GIDRY & Pedro LEBLANC.

In 1794, Baton Rouge was the nearest church to Manchac, which lay north of the eponymous bayou in present-day East Baton Rouge Parish.

21.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Joseph [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents & 3 sisters; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, Family No. 141, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, & does not gives his godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls him Joseph, son [Joseph GUÉDRY's] fils, age 2, on the embarkation list, Josef, su [Josef GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Joseph GUÉDRY, his [Joseph GUÉDRY's] son, age 2, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his parents & 3 sisters; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A: 101, 454 (SM Ch.: v.6, #36), a marriage record, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, native of Nantes, says his wife was "native of this parish," gives his & her parents' names, says her father was "inhabitant on Bayou Teche, parish of St. Mary," that the witnesses to his marriage were Francois SENEGHIERES, Nicolas VERRET, Honnoré CARLIN, & Francois DUMESNIL, & that the priest noted--"Being unable to go to the lower bayou since I had a marriage at the Church on the same day"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A: 101-02, 455 (SM Ch.: Folio F), another marriage record, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, of Nantes, says his wife was "of this parish," gives his & her parents' names, says her father was "of Bayou Teych in the parish of St. Mary," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Francois SENEGHIER, Nicolas VERET, Honoré CARLIN, & Francois DEMINI.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

22.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Joseph-Firmin [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph-Firmin GUÉDRY, does not give his godparents' names, & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls him Joseph-Fermin, son [Pierre GUÉDRY's] fils, à la mamelle, on the embarkation list, Josef Fermin, su [Pedro GUÉDRY's] hijo, de pecho, on the debarkation list, & Joseph-Firmin GUÉDRY, son [of Pierre GUÉDRY's], a nursling, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; BRDR, 2:178, 339 (ASM-2, 63), his marriage record, calls him Fermin GUÉDRY of St.-Martin Parish, Nantes, France, says his wife was from the same parish, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Ambroise HÉBERT [frequent witness] & Josef LEJEUNE.

His wife was 6 year older.  

23.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Madeleine GUÉDRY.  Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152

24.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Malo GUÉDRY; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 376-78, Family No. 463, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Malo-Bénonie GUÉDRY, gives his parents' names, says his godparents were Bénonie MOYSE & Cécile BRAUD, & that his family resided at St-Suliac from 1762-72; BRDR, 2:270, 341 (SJO-3, 17), his marriage record, calls him Malo GUÉDRY, says he was 26 years old at the time of the wedding, says his wife was 20 years old, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "res. of Machaque," that his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Ambroise DUPUIS [her father] & Pierre GUÉDRY [his brother].

In 1797, Baton Rouge was the nearest church to Manchac, which lay north of the eponymous bayou in present-day East Baton Rouge Parish.

25.  Not in Wall of Names.  Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 376-78, Family No. 463, calls him Antoine GUÉDRY, says he was born in c1754 but gives no birthplace, that his family was counted at La Pointe-à-la-Jeunese, Île Royale, in 1752, that his parents were Charles GUÉDRY & his first wife Madeleine HÉBERT, that he reached France in Mar 1759 aboard du Supply with his parents & 3 sisters, & lists the parishes in the St.-Malo area where his family resided from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Antoine [GUÉDRY], gives his parents' names, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; NOAR, 3:151, 163 (SLC, M4, 87), his marriage record, calls him Antoine GUEDOY, native of Île St.-Jean, calls his parents Carlos [GUEDOY] & Magdalena HÉBERT, calls his wife Maria HUBERT, native of Grand-Pré in Acadia, says her parents were Pablo [HUBERT] & Margarita MENA[U/CE]SOU, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Pierre HÉBERT [HUBERT] & Joseph MEU[S/T]ON [MASON].  

The Robichaux volumes & his marriage record are clear--the fellow who married Marie HÉBERT at New Orleans in Jul 1780 was Antoine, son of Charles GUÉDRY of Île Royale.  Antoine came to LA years before his widowed father & 6 siblings reached the colony in 1785 as part of the Seven Ships expedition from France.  Note that Antoine was in France as late as Dec 1775, when he accompanied his family to Nantes after the failure of the Leigne-les-bois venture in Poitou.  He would have been 21 then.  A possible scenario for his "early" arrival in LA could be:  while he was living in the Nantes area in the late 1770s, bored out of his mind, France entered the American Revolution against the hated British, so he became a crew member of one of the French privateers that went out to prey on British merchant ships & ended up in New Orleans, where he met & fell in love with an Acadian girl who just happened to be from the same family as his mother.  He was, after all, a great-grandson of Claude GUÉDRY dit Grivois dit La Verdure, so a sense of adventure was in his blood.  No matter, he was an Acadian who came to LA, so he belongs on this list.

Marie was from St.-Gabriel d'Iberville on the Upper Acadian Coast, so they probably settled there, but not for a while.  Their daughter Marie-Émelie was born in Nov 1782 probably at New Orleans & baptized there in Mar 1783.  See NOAR, 3:151 (SLC, B9, 278).  When Antoine's parents & siblings finally came to LA from France in 1785, they settled at St.-Gabriel de Manchac, just north of St.-Gabriel d'Iberville.  

26.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Margueritte [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, Family No. 141; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Margueritte, sa [Joseph GUÉDRY's] fille, age 7, on the embarkation list, Margarita, su [Josef GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite GUÉDRY, his [Joseph GUÉDRY's] daughter, age 7, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her parents & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:373, 740 (SM Ch.: Marriage Investigation: Folio D, #12), record of her marriage investigation, calls her Marguerite-Adélaïde GUIDRY, "of Nantes, Bretagne, France, living in this parish," calls her intended husband Frédéric TENHOLT, "of Doesburg, Holland, County of Zutphen and in this parish for 9 years and in this colony since the 'presa ultima de Pensacola' (recent capture of Pensacola) {Under Governor Bernardo de GALVEZ the Spanish offensive captured Pensacola on 10 May 1781. The Spanish offensive was part of Spain's involvement in the American Revolution})," gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "all of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage investigation were, assistant witnesses, Célestin PLACIDE & Philipe VERRET, & regular witnesses, Louis DEMARETSZ (DESMARETS) & Nicolas GUENARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:373, 740(SM Ch.: v.4, #141), her marriage record, calls her Marguerite-Adélaïde GUÉDRY, "of Nantes, in Europe, France," calls her husband Frédéric TENHOLD, "from Republic of Holland, city of Doesburgo contivo of Zutphen," gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Louis DEMAREST, Nicolas GUENARD, Louis LEIGNON, Célestin PLACIDE, Joseph SENEK, & Darlen PREVOT.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

She should not be confused with older sister Anne-Rosalie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, who died at age 3 the year this Marguerite was born.  This Marguerite probably was named after her dead sister. 

Was her husband a Dutch soldier who came to LA with the Spanish to fight the British?

27.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls her Margueritte-Félicité [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents, 2 brothers, & an orphan; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls her Margueritte-Félicité, fille [of Jean-Bte GUÉDRY], à la mamelle, on the embarkation list, Margarita Felicidad, de pecho, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite-Félicité GUÉDRY, dgtr. [of Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY], nursling, on the complete listing, says she was in the 28th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her parents, 2 brothers, & an orphan, & that she was baptized in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include her on the embarkation list, calls her Margarita Felicidad, de pecho, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite-Félicité GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] daughter, a nursling, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 51st Family aboard Le Beaumont with her father, 2 brothers, & an orphan, & & that they were from the ship Bon Papa.  

What happened to her?  She does not appear on any LA censuses.  Her mother, who does not appear on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont with the rest of the family, probably died soon after the family reached New Orleans in July 1785.  Her father then waited for relatives to arrive aboard the third ship, Le Beaumont, before taking her & her brothers to Ascension, where brother Francois appears on the 1791 census with uncle Joseph GUIDRY.  Marguerite-Félicité probably died by then.  

28.  Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 9L), calls her Marguerite GUÉDRY, & lists her with her first husband & 4 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 18, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 all of her family survived; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 376-79, Family No. 463, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marguerite GUÉDRY, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, says she was at La Pointe-à-la-Jeunese, Île Royale, in 1752, that she reached France in Mar 1759 with her family aboard du Supply, & lists her family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 105, Family No. 133, calls her Marguerite-Victoire GUÉDRY, says she was baptized 9 Mar 1752 on Île Royale but gives no specific place, gives her parents'  names, calls her mother Madeleine HÉBERT, details her first marriage, says her first husband was born in 1733 in L'Assomption, Pigiguit, & gives his parents' names & the name of his first wife, whom he had married in England; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls her Marguerite-Victoire GUÉDRY & Marguerite [GUÉDRY], calls her mother Madeleine HÉBERT, details her birth, baptism, & marriage, says she was resident of St.-Similien, Nantes, at the time of her marriage, & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls her Marguerite GUÉDRY, sa [Jean-Charles BOUDRAU's] femme, age 34, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Charles BOUDROT's] wife, age 34, on the complete listing, says she was in the 18th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her first husband & 4 children, details her first marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, & says daughter Henriette [BOUDROT] was born in 1772 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:188, 341 (ASC-2, 55), the record of her second marriage, calls her Margarita GUIDRY, widow of Juan Carlos BOUDRO, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says his parents were "of Carrascalexo Parrido de la Lavera de La Reina," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Francisco Lopez MACHADO & Phelipe BROUCE; BRDR, 3:388 (ASM-3, 84), her death/burial record, calls her Margarita GUIDRY, age 66 yrs., widow of Gregorio CHICO, but does not give her parents'  names.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 29, 49, 176. 

Was her second husband a Spanish soldier?

29.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Marie GUÉDRY.

30.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Marie [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, Family No. 141, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Jeanne GUÉDRY, but does not give her godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Marie, sa [Joseph GUÉDRY's] fille, age 9, on the embarkation list, Maria, su [Josef GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Marie GUÉDRY, his [Joseph GUÉDRY's] daughter, age 9, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his parents & 3 siblings.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

31.  Wall of Names, 44, calls her Marie GUÉDRY; BRDR, 2:38, 341 (SGA-14, 13), the record of her first marriage, calls her Maria GUIDRY, gives her & her husband's parents' names, calls her parents "Glo (Claude) [GUIDRY] & Anne MOLIZ of Maraca (sic)," says his parents were "of Canada," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Simon Pedro DEGRE & Juan Bautista TRAHAN; BRDR, 2:341, 637 (SJO-3, 35), the record of her second marriage, calls her Maria GUÉDRY, gives her & her husband's parents' names, does not give either of their first spouse's names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Zuliad GUÉDRY [her brother Suliac-Charles] & Francisca DAYGLE; BRDR, 3:82, 389 (SJO-3, 58), the record of her third marriage, calls her Maria GUIDRY, widow ROBICHAUX, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says his parents were from Germany, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Juan HÉBERRE & Juan GUÉDRY.  

In 1788, St.-Gabriel was the closest church to Manchac, which was on the north side of the eponymous bayou in present-day East Baton Rouge Parish, across the bayou from St.-Gabriel.  That changed in 1793, when a church was opened at Baton Rouge, north of Manchac & on its side of the bayou.  

When the St.-Gabriel priest recorded "Maraca" for her parents' original home, he probably meant Mirliguèche, which was on the Atlantic side of Nova Scotia & whose name would challenge the best of spellers.  Her first husband's parents were probably from Minas, which is certainly in Canada today.  

32.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Marie-Rose [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents, 3 brothers, & a maternal cousin; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Rose GUÉDRY, does not give her godparents' names, & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls her Marie-Rose, sa [Pierre GUÉDRY's] fille, age 6, on the embarkation list, Maria Rosa, su [Pedro GUÉDRY's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Marie-Rose GUÉDRY, his [Pierre GUÉDRY's] daughter, age 6, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her parents, 3 brothers, & a maternal cousin; BRDR, 2:341, 594 (ASM-2, 26), her marriage record, calls her Maria Rosa GUÉDRY of Parish St. Donaciano, Diocese of Nantes, France, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says both sets of parents were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Josef AUCOIN & Luis DANTIN.

33.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Monique GUÉDRY; BRDR, 2:143, 338 (ASC-1, 148), her marriage record, calls her Anna Monica GUÉDRY, give her & her husband's parents' names, calls her parents Juan Bautista [GUÉDRY] & Ana Magdalena DUPUY, says both fathers were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Pedro LANDRY & Pedro DUPUY; BRDR, 4:254 (SGA-8, 110), her death/burial record, calls her Monique GUIDRY, age 86, a widow, but does not give her parents' names or her dead husband's name.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 436; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 18.

Her birth year is from the age given in the Spanish report of Feb 1768 & the Ascension census of 1777, not the Ascension census of 1770.  Why is she called Marie in the census of 1777?  Was Marie part of her name?  Until I can find corroboration for this, she shall remain simply Monique here.  

The age given in her burial record is off by over 2 decades!  She was closer to 61 when she died.  

34.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Ollivier GUÉDRY; BRDR, 2:75-76, 342 (ASM-2, 55), his marriage record, calls him Olivier GUIDRY of St. Suliac, France, says his wife was "of St. James Parish," gives his & her parents' names, says her parents were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Bautista BERGERON & Guillermo HAMON.

35.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2499, says that Pierre's second wife was Marguerite MILLER & that he married her in c1781, no place of marriage given; BRDR, 1b:8, 82 (PCP-4, 35; PCP-3, 270-271), the record of his second marriage, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, native of Acadia, residing at Natchez, says his wife was native of Acadia, residing at Natchez, gives his & her parents' names but does not give his first wife's name, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Firmin BABIN, Pierre GUÉDRY [himself], & Augustin LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:446 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1737), his death/burial record, calls him Pierre GUIDRY, married his last marriage to Marguerite MILLER, says he died "at his residence at la grande pointe at age about 93 years, that he was buried next day "in the parish cemetery," but does not give his parents' names or the names of his first 2 wives; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:446 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#543), his succession record, calls him Pierre GUIDRY, Sr. of Acadie, gives his parents' names, says both of his parents were deceased, says he married (1) Marguerite DUPUY & had 2 children by  her, that he married (2) Claire BABIN, & had Olivier, Joseph, Jean Baptiste, Hypolite, Augustin, & David by her, & that he married (3) Marguerite MILLER, & had Marguerite m. Pierre BROUSSARD, Louis, Charles, Nastasie m. David REES, Antoine, Célestine m. R. EASTIN, Arthémise D. m. ____THOMAS, Rosémond, & Felonise by her.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 436, 438; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 26.  

Wall of Names implies that he was married to Marguerite DUPUIS & that they had a daughter named Marie when they reached LA.  The marriage is confirmed in Pierre's succession record, cited above.  The succession record says only that Pierre & Marguerite had 2 children.  If Marie was one of those children, why didn't she appear in the Ascension census of 1770 with her father & stepmother?  She probably died as a child.  She was only 3 in 1768.  Various church records, such as Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:449, 452, 459, as well as the Spanish report of Feb 1768, confirm that Pierre & Marguerite lived at St.-Luis de Natchez.  Arsenault says nothing about the first marriage to Marguerite DUPUIS.  

The Acadian settlement at San Luis de Natchez did not last long enough to have a church of its own, hence his second marriage being recorded at Pointe Coupée, the closest church to Natchez in 1769.  

The marriage record of a daughter of Pierre GUIDRY & Marguerite MILLER says that Marguerite was from VA.  The baptismal record of a granddaughter says that Marguerite was from SC, that her father, William MILLER, was from Scotland, & her mother, Anne KEVEN, from Ireland.  Other church records say that Marguerite was from Pensacola & Mobile  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A: 369, 373, 374, 2-A: 453, 454, CD.  Most likely the family moved around a bit.  

Quote about being his being the patriarch of Grande Pointe is from the brochure that accompanies the Robert Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville.  Several church records, dated as early as Oct 1812, call the elder Pierre "inhabitant at la grand-pointe."  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:451, 456, 458.  

His burial record says he was 93 when he died, but, according to the Spanish report of 1768 & 2 census records, supported by Arsenault, he was "only" 83--a patriarch nonetheless, having fathered at least19 children by 3 wives!  (His succession record includes 17 children but leaves out sons Victorin & Pierre by his third wife & 2 sons who died in childhood, so he may have had as many as 21 children by his 3 wives!)

36.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife Louise BLANDIN & no children; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Pierre-Jean GUÉDRY, says his godparents were Ambroise LONGUEPÉE & Marie-Francoise BOURG, & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Pierre [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, charpentier, age 23, on the embarkation list, Pedro GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Pierre GUÉDRY, carpenter, age 23, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 28th Family on the embarkation list & the 29th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his wife Louise/Luisa BLANDIN, age 27, & no children.

His father's family is just above his on the passenger list of Le Beaumont.  

37.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY; BRDR, 2:342, 442 (PCP-19, 69), his marriage record, calls him Pierre GUÉDERY, res. Manchac, calls his wife Marie LANDRY, widow of Simon DAIGLE, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents & her mother were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Mato GUÉDRY, Groom's Brother, & Francois or Francoise DAIGLE; BRDR, 3:390 (SJO-4, 54), his death/burial record, calls him Pedro Claudio GUIDRY, age 40 yrs., married, but does not give his parents' names or his wife's name.

Why didn't they marry at Baton Rouge, which in 1797 was closer to Manchac than Pointe Coupée, clear across the river?

38.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife, 4 children, & his wife's nephew; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 103, shows the fate of his family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote to his father's profile above; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 378-80, Family No. 464; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 381, Family No. 467; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 47, Family No. 92, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, says he was born in c1754 "in the parish of L'Assomption in Acadie," which was Pigiguit, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal record of son Pierre, baptized 21 Oct 1774, St.-Jacques, Châtellerault, godson of Pierre LEBERT, journeyman, & Geneviève LEVRON, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, says he was born in c1753 but gives no birthplace, that he was a seaman, details his marriage but does not gives his wife's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Jean-Charles, baptized 21 Oct 1776, St.-Donatien, Nantes, died age 6 1/2 & buried 16 Mar 1783, St.-Martin, Chantenay, daughter Marie-Rose, baptized 19 Apr 1779, St.-Donatien, Nantes, son Jean-Pierre, baptized 22 Jul 1781, St.-Martin, Chantenay, & son Joseph-Firmin, baptized 15 Oct 1784, St.-Martin, Chantenay, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, ouvier, age 31, on the embarkation list, Pedro GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Pierre GUÉDRY, workman, age 31, on the complete listing, says he was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his wife, 4 children, & his wife's nephew; BRDR, 2:342 (ASM-3, 3), his death/burial record, calls him Pedro Janvier GUÉDRY, age 42 years,  married to Josefa LEBERT, but does not give his parents' names.  

Janvier is French for January.  This unusual middle name also can be found in 3 of his children's marriage records in BRDR, 2:340-42, where it is usually spelled Januario because the recording priest at Assumption was Spanish.

39.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Pierre [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 2 siblings, & an orphan; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, his birth/baptismal record, provides his middle name; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Pierre, son [Jean-Bte GUÉDRY's] fils, age 8, on the embarkation list, Pedro, su [Juan Bautista GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Pierre GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] son, age 8, on the complete listing, says he was in the 28th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his parents, 2 siblings, & an orphan, &, calling him Pierre-Jean-Marie [GUÉDRY], says he was baptized in 1776 but gives no place of baptism; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Pedro, su [Juan Bautista GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Pierre GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] son, no age given, on the complete listing, says he was in the 51st Family aboard Le Beaumont with his father, 2 siblings, & an orphan, & that they were from the ship Bon Papa.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497.

What happened to him?  He does not appear on any LA censuses.  His mother, who does not appear on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont with the rest of the family, probably died soon after the family reached New Orleans in July 1785.  His father then waited for relatives to arrive aboard the third ship, Le Beaumont, before taking him & his siblings to Ascension, where brother Francois appears on the 1791 census with uncle Joseph GUIDRY.  Pierre-Jean-Marie probably died by then.  

40.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Pierre-Joseph [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 47, Family No. 92, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, gives his parents' names, says his godparents were Pierre LEBERT, journeyman, & Geneviève LEVRON, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, calls him Pierre-Joseph [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls him Pierre-Joseph, son [Pierre GUÉDRY's] fils, age 10, on the embarkation list, Pedro Josef, su [Pedro GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Pierre-Joseph GUÉDRY, his [Pierre GUÉDRY's] son, age 10, on the complete listing, says he was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin, &, calling him Pierre [GUÉDRY], says he was born in 1774 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:78, 342 (ASM-2, 29), his marriage record, calls him Pedro GUÉDRY of Poitou, France, says his wife was "of Ascension Parish," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Carlos BERGERON (her father) & Josef LEJEUNE (his stepfather); Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:251-52 (Houma Ct.Hse.: OA: v.1, p.4), a "judgement for money claim," dated 17 Jun 1822, calls him Pierre GUIDRY m. Marguerite BERGERON, "whose 2nd husband is Jean Baptiste BEAUSERGEANT," & says child Léonore Melanie m. Bernard Édouard HARRIS.

His wife's father came to LA in Feb 1765 as a child with the party from Halifax via St.-Dominigue, today's Haiti, led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil but later moved to the river settlements before settling on Bayou Lafourche.  Marguerite was born at Ascension in Aug 1780.  See BRDR, 2:78 (ASC-1, 65 & 66).  It was unusual for Acadians whose families had been in the colony so long to intermarry with Acadians who had been in France & did not come to LA until 1785.  

41.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Renée-Élisabeth [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Reiné-Élisabette, sa [Joseph GUÉDRY's] fille, à la mamelle, on the embarkation list, Ryena Ysabel, de pecho, on the debarkation list, & Reiné-Élizabeth GUÉDRY, daughter [of Joseph GUÉDRY], nursling, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his parents & 3 siblings; BRDR, 3:390, 426 (ASM-2, 132), her marriage record, calls her Reine Elizabeth GEDRI (GUEDRY) of Paimboeuf, Brittany, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her husband was from St. Nicolas in Brittany, France, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean DAIGLE, Jean Baptiste GIROIR, & Etienne DUPUI.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

42.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Suliac GUÉDRY; BRDR, 2:39, 343 (PCP-19, 28), his marriage record, calls him Souillac GUÉDERIC of France, says his wife was "of France," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Élie COMO, Jean Baptiste AUCOIN, François DUGUE, & John DURAND.

Why didn't they marry at Baton Rouge, which was closer to Manchac than Pointe Coupée, clear across the river?

43.  Wall of Names, 12, calls her Ursule GUÉDRY.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 433.

Her estimated birth year is based on the age in the Spanish report of 1767.  

Does the name Magdelon DIGRIST with her husband in the Opelousas census of 1777 mean that Ursule had died in the 1770s & her husband had remarried?  Probably.  See De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 24.  Magdelon DIGRIST's age in the 1777 census was 42, giving her an estimated birth year of c1735.  A burial record for "Mrs. Paul BOUTIN, "inhabitants[sic] of this Post [Opelousas]," dated 20 Aug 1788, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:104 (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.8), says BOUTIN's wife was 57 years old when she died.  This gives her an estimated birth year of c1737.  Contrast these dates to Ursule's estimated birth year of c1730.  So who was Madeleine DIGREST?  Was her actual name Madeleine DUCREST?  

44.  Not in Wall of Names.  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:374 (SM Ch.: v.4, #67), his marriage record, calls him Olivier GUIDRY, calls his wife Félicité OCOIN, "widr.[sic] of Joseph FARKE (FAULK), gives his fathers name but not his mother's name, gives her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jean-Baptiste SIMON & David BABINO.  

The baptismal records of sons Paul, dated 7 Jun 1798, & Olivier, dated 7 May 1800, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:374-75 (SM Ch.: v.5, #61; SM Ch.: v.5, #243), call him Olivier GUIDRY "of Boston," & give both his parents' names.  Most of the Acadians born in MA during Le Grand Dérangement settled in the St. Lawrence River valley, so he may have come to LA from Canada by 1793.  The baptismal record of son Alexandre, dated Aug 1804, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:331 (SM Ch.: v.1, last page, & v.2, p.47), gives another clue by calling him Olivier GUIDRY, "Canadien, naturalized as an American in Philadelphia."  Evidently the good priest at St. Martinville confused Boston & Philadelphia.  This same baptismal record calls Olivier's parents Augustin GUÉDRY & Marguerite PECOT & PICOT d'Acadie, so there is no doubt that he was Acadian.  

Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 180, says that Jean, son of Pierre GUIDRY & Marguerite BRASSEAU, & his wife Marguerite, daughter of Michel PICOT & Anne BLIN, who married in c1755, had a son name Olivier, born in 1764, no birthplace given.  Jehn goes on to say that the family was at MA in 1755, at Québec in 1766, & at St.-Jacques l'Achigan, on the St. Lawrence above Québec City, in 1767.  This is probably our man.  Did Olivier leave the St. Lawrence valley when he came of age in the 1780s or early 1790s & settle in LA?  None of the baptismal records of Olivier's children in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A & 1-B, that include the grandparents' names calls his father anything but Augustin.  

Why is such as well-documented Acadian immigrant not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names?

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